Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.

Concentration is a form of exclusion, and where there is exclusion, there is a thinker who excludes.

Too much concentration belittles life. Concentration is a narrowing down of the mind - but we are concerned with the total process of living, and to concentrate exclusively on any particular aspect of life, belittles life.