Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.
The silence of the mountain is even more beautiful once the birds are quiet.
Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit of grit.
You cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order.
If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.
Train the body and develop stamina and endurance. But the spirit of competition and power that presides over them is not good, it reflects a distorted vision of life. The root of the martial arts is not there.