Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten; when the belt fits, the belly is forgotten; when the heart is right, "for" and "against" are forgotten. There is no change in what is inside, no following what is outside, when the adjustment to events is comfortable. One begins with what is comfortable and never experiences what is uncomfortable, when one knows the comfort of forgetting what is comfortable.

Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.

Beneath multiple specific and individual distinctions, beneath innumerable and incessant transformations, at the bottom of the circular evolution without beginning or end, there hides a law, a unique nature participated in by all beings, in which this common participation produces a ground of common harmony.

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

To have attained to the human form is a source of joy... What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.

Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.