Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself, if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Stop leaving and you will arrive, Stop searching and you will see, Stop running away and you will be found.
Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.
If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession.
The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things because they don't look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them.
Those who know are wise. Those who know themselves are enlightened.
When the student is ready the teacher will appear.
Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
. . . Intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom.
The best people are like water, which benefits all things and does not compete with them. It stays in lowly places that others reject. This is why it is so similar to the Way.
Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering, This is Primal Virtue.
For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
My words are easy to understand and easy to perform, Yet no man under heaven knows them or practices them.
The very highest is barely known. Then comes that which people know and love, Then that which is feared, Then that which is despised. Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.
. . . integral wisdom involves a direct participation in every moment: the observer and the observed are dissolved in the light of pure awareness, and no mental concepts or attitudes are present to dim that light.
Trustable words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not trustable.
Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.
He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.
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