Without frustration you will not discover that you might be able to do something on your own. We grow through conflict.
Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.
Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion
Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.
There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Emptiness the starting point. — In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead!
Flow in the living moment. — 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. Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.
It's not what you give, it's the way you give it.
I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself.
Your state of mind is everything.
As you think, you shall become
The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.
To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.
If there is a God, he is within. You don't ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.
We are told that talent creates opportunity, yet it is desire that creates talent.
Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. There will be calmness when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.
People fear what they do not understand.
You will never learn anything new unless you are ready to accept yourself with your limitations. You must accept the fact that you are capable in some directions and limited in others, and you must develop your capabilities.
Obey the principles without being bound by them.
The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.
No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.
If I should die tomorrow, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do. You can't expect more from life.
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