A drop of poison spoils a pot of milk; a single drop of arrogance spoils years of spiritual practice.

You wander the world looking for medicine, unaware that the cure is contained in your own quiet awareness.

The mountain does not shake in the wind; the established sage remains unmoved by praise or blame.

A sharp sword can cut the hardest armor, but soft water wears away the highest mountain; gentleness overcomes force.

A true warrior fights not with iron weapons against others, but with discriminative wisdom against his own illusions.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

What you seek is seeking you.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.