I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.
The highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgment.
To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realise how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.
The true nature of action is very difficult to understand. Therefore, one should know the nature of attached, detached and forbidden actions.
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 earn your livelihood; You may wander through the universe incognito; Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful; You may walk on water and live in fire; But control of the mind is better and more difficult.
