If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue.
The very strength that protects the heart from injury is the strength that prevents the heart from enlarging to its intended greatness within. The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven.
If you eat with love that is good; what you just gulp down like anything, that will kill you.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.
In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments; they are like part of God.
