Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!

The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.

A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.

The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.

Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.

If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.

Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.

The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.

When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets.

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.

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

Everyone's holding my happiness hostage.

Day by day, there exists the possibility for the dream to come true.

Eternal life is knowing God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ!

To hear complaints is wearisome to the wretched and the happy alike.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

To understand somebody else as a human being, I think, is about as close to real forgiveness as one can get.

Passion is the gasoline of social media.

I was in a very dark place for a long time. It's just so hard to have normalcy.

If someone messes with me, I'm going to mess with them.

And is it right, butterfly, they like you better framed and dried?