It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.

No one does wrong voluntarily.

The same wind is blowing, and yet one of us may be cold and the other not.

The body cannot be cured without regard for the soul.

You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.

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.