Awareness of your weakness and confusion makes you strong because conscious awareness is the bright light that destroys the darkness of negativity. Detection of inner negativity is not a negative act, but a courageously positive act that makes you a new person.

When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.

Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.

Learn this great secret of life: What people call interruption or disturbance to their routine is just as much a part of living as the routine. To split life into two parts, one called routine and the other called interruption, is to be caught between them.

It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.

Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something.

A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.