Who you are is always right.

Use a mirror in difficult times. You will see both cause and resolution.

Grappling with fate is like meeting an expert wrestler: to escape, you have to accept the fall when you are thrown. The only thing that counts is whether you get back up.

Once we make our decision, all things will come to us. Auspicious signs are not a superstition, but a confirmation. They are a response.

Rain scatters plum petals; Weeping stains the earth. One can only take shelter And wait for clearing.

Self-discipline leads to higher spiritual states only if practiced with under- standing. The clearer the goal, the greater the result.

A tree uses what comes its way to nurture itself. By sinking its roots deeply into the earth, by accepting the rain that flows towards it, by reaching out to the sun, the tree perfects its character and becomes great. ... Absorb, absorb, absorb. That is the secret of the tree.