What the sayer of praise is really praising is himself, by saying implicitly, My eyes are clear." Likewise, someone who criticizes is criticizing himself, saying implicitly, "I can't see very well with my eyes so inflamed.

When you notice a fault in your neighbour, search for the same in yourself.

We alchemists look for talent that can heat up and change. Lukewarm won't do. Halfhearted holding back, well-enough getting by? Not here.

Sadness to me is the happiest time, When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind. Those times when I'm silent and still as the earth, The thunder of my roar is heard across the universe.

Behead yourself!... Dissolve your whole body into Vision: become seeing, seeing, seeing!

What strange beings we are! That sitting in hell at the bottom of the dark, we're afraid of our own immortality.

Don't grieve for what doesn't come. Some things that don't happen keep disasters from happening.