Any idea that is constantly held in the mind and emotionalized, begins at once to clothe itself in the most convenient and appropriate physical form that is available.

My will to do springs from the knowledge that I can do. I’m only being natural, for there is no fear or doubt inside my mind.

Recognize and use the spiritual power of the infinite. The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible.

Basically, human traits are the same everywhere. I don’t want to sound like “As Confucius say” but under the sky, under the heavens, there is but one family.

It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you’re being knocked down, “Why am I being knocked down?” If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person.

It’s the will that makes men – success takes perseverance.

To refuse to be cast down, that is the lesson.

Not conviction, not method, but perception is the way of truth. It is a state of effortless awareness, pliable awareness, choiceless awareness.

Mind is an ultimate reality which is aware of itself and is not the seat of our empirical consciousness – by “being” mind instead of “having” mind.

What is real is seeing the truth instantaneously, because truth has no future.

Truth cannot be structured or confined. When there is no center and no circumference, then there is truth.

There is a difference: the world, our reaction to it.

Freedom lies in understanding yourself from moment to moment.

Happiness is good for the body, but sorrow strengthens to spirit.

What’s amiss I’ll stop to mend, and endure what can’t be mended.

I no longer cover paradise. More important, I no longer fear hell. If you ask me what I will be in heaven, I will say this: Why should I think about something so far away when there are so many things in this life I have not finished learning about?

The waters are in motion all the time, but the moon retains its serenity. The mind moves in response to the ten thousand situations but remains ever the same.

The round of summer and winter becomes a blessing the moment we give up the fantasy of eternal spring.

Right conduct is governed by reason and creativity.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

All I can offer is an experience but never a conclusion, so even what I have said needs to be thoroughly examined by you.

I might be able to help you to discover and examine your problem by awakening your awareness of their cause and effect, but I cannot teach you, for I am not a teacher, and I have no style.

I don’t believe in system, nor in method. And without system, without method, what’s to teach?

To me, defeat is anything is merely temporary, and its punishment is but an urge for me to greater effort to achieve my goal. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.

To doubt is to think, and thought is the only thing in the universe whose existence cannot be denied, because to deny is to think.

To be one thing and not to change is the climax of stillness. To have nothing in one that resists is the climax of emptiness. To remain detached from all outside things is the climax of fineness. To have in oneself no contraries is the climax of purity.

There can be no initiative if one has fear, and fear compels us to cling to tradition, gurus, etc.

The point to be made about ego is that man should use his ego and not be used by ego or blinded by it.

Those who are materialistic still hold onto the ego as though it were a possession, rather than using it as a tool. Inwardly, psychologically, be a nobody.

A person cannot forget someone who is good to them.

If every man would help his neighbor, no man would be without help.

We can see through others only when we see through ourselves.

Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

Let things be what they are, move like water, rest like a mirror, respond like an echo, pass quickly like the nonexistent, and be quiet as purity.

You can never step in the same river twice, my friend. Like flowing water, life is perpetual movement. There is nothing fixed.

Whatever your problems happen to be in the future, remember well that they cannot remain stationary but must move together with your living spirit. Otherwise, you will drift into artificiality or attempt to solidify the ever-flowing. To avoid that, you must change and be flexible. Remember, the usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness.

Be pliable. When a man is living, he is soft and pliable; when he is dead, he becomes rigid. Pliability is life; rigidity is death, whether one speak’s of man’s body, his mind, or his spirit.

We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed. Have no rigid system in you, and you’ll be flexible to change with the ever changing.

If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment.

Behind every motion is the music of his soul made visible. Otherwise empty motion is like an empty word; no meaning. Postures without proper channeling of your emotions behind them are dead movements.

Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain.

A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.

Without frustration you will not discover that you might be able to do something on your own. We grow through conflict.

Jogging is not only a form of exercise to me, it is also a form of relaxation. It is my own hour every morning when I can be alone with my thoughts.

The enemy of development is this pain phobia – the unwillingness to do a tiny bit of suffering.

Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.

There is nothing that will enable you to pursue your course in greater peace than the patient bearing of insult. Patience is not passive, on the contrary it is concentrated strength.

“A man is literally what he thinks”. This might be a shocking statement, but everything is a state of mind.

I will never prostitute myself in any way that I do what I don’t believe in.