You may control a mad elephant;
You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger;
Ride the lion and play with the cobra;
By alchemy you may learn your livelihood;
You may wander through the universe incognito;
Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful;
You may walk in water and live in fire;
But control of the mind is better and more difficult.

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

The true inner self must be drawn up like a jewel from the bottom of the sea, rescued from confusion, from indistinction, from immersion in the common, the nondescript, the trivial, the sordid, the evanescent.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral, which always is as it is.

Silence is beautiful, not awkward. The human tendency to be afraid of something beautiful is awkward.

In order to rise from its own ashes, a phoenix first must burn.

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

The entire fruit is already present in the seed.