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.

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

The raven hatches its young; the fish spew forth their eggs; the slim-waisted wasp transforms, and when a younger brother comes along the elder brother weeps. For too long I have not been able to work in harmony with these changes. So, given that I did not play my part in harmony with others, how could I expect to change people?

To have a human form is a joyful thing.

Never admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it

Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.

A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.