Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.

Would people know that nothing can happen unless the entire universe makes it happen, they would achieve much more with less expenditure of energy.

Between the banks of pleasure and pain flows the river of life. If you spend much time on either bank you will miss out on life.

When you desire the common good, the whole world desires with you. Make humanity's desire your own and work for it. There you cannot fail.

When pain is accepted for what it is, a lesson and a warning, and deeply looked into and heeded, the separation between pain and pleasure breaks down, both become just experience - painful when resisted, joyful when accepted.

Even for a moment do not think that you are the body. Give yourself no name, no shape. In the darkness and the silence reality is found.

Words can bring you only up to their own limit; to go beyond, you must abandon them. Remain as the silent witness only.