We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

Wearing a scrap of colored cloth around your neck, even though it serves no useful purpose, but which answers to the name of "tie."

If I had to give you one piece of advice it would be this: don't be intimidated by other people's opinions.

If you say it was the "last" time, it might well turn out to be the last. What you meant was "the most recent time I was here".

This is the present moment. Learn how to gobble it up without fear or guilt.

I understand that everything is connected, that all roads meet, and that all rivers flow into the same sea.

The only faults considered grave are the following: not respecting the rights of one's neighbor, letting oneself be paralyzed by fear, feeling guilty, thinking one does not deserve the good and bad which occurs in life, and being a coward.