There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence.

The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.

When I was young, I believed that life might unfold in an orderly way, according to my hopes and expectations. But now I understand that the Way winds like a river, always changing, ever onward.. My journeys revealed that the Way itself creates the warrior; that every path leads to peace, every choice to wisdom. And that life has always been, and will always be, arising in Mystery.

It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner of man he was made to be, in the full perfection of bodily strength and beauty. But these glories are withheld from him who is guilty of self-neglect, for they are not wont to blaze forth unbidden.

The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth living

He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.

Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.