Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys

To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

One of our greatest enemy is secret resentment. Freedom begins when we become conscious of it.

Two shallow substitutes which people unconciously take as happiness are activity and aquisition.

There are two doors in Life, one marked 'Security' and the other marked 'Freedom'. If you choose the first, you lose both.

BE LOVING TO YOUR NEGATIVES. Acknowledge that you created them to fulfill a need. Now you are finding new, positive ways to fulfill those needs. So lovingly release the old negative patterns.

True happiness is an acceptance of life as it is given to us, with its diminishment, mystery, uncontrollability, and all.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

"... If you suffer, it is not because things are impermanent. It is because you believe things are permanent. When a flower dies, you don't suffer much, because you understand that flowers are impermanent. But you cannot accept the impermanence of your beloved one, and you suffer deeply when she passes away. If you look deeply into impermanence, you will do your best to make her happy right now. Aware of impermanence, you become positive, loving, and wise. Impermanence is good news. Without impermanence, nothing is possible. With impermanence, every door is open for change. Instead of complaining, we should say, 'Long live impermanence!'. Impermanence is an instrument for our liberation."