Don’t be anxious. Nature controls it all. And before long you’ll be no one, nowhere.

A diferencia del poeta moderno, no vive aquejado por el ansia de originalidad. Sabe que su canto no es suyo sólo. La conciencia étnica, forjadora del mito, ha cumplido antes que él naciera, el trabajo principal; ha creado los objetos bellos. Su papel queda reducido a la escrupulosidad de un artífice.

Peaceful heart, peaceful mind.

To stand up straight — not straightened

This thing, what is it in itself, in its own constitution? What is its substance and material?

From this, one can make a deduction which is quite certainly the ultimate truth of jigsaw puzzles: despite appearances, puzzling is not a solitary game: every move the puzzler makes, the puzzlemaker has made before; every piece the puzzler picks up, and picks up again, and studies and strokes, every combination he tries, and tries a second time, every blunder and every insight, each hope and each discouragement have all been designed, calculated, and decided by the other.

My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love. Meditate so that you can feel immense silence, and love so that your life can become a song, a dance, a celebration. You will have to move between the two, and if you can move easily, if you can move without any effort, you have learned the greatest thing in life.

Is an emerald suddenly flawed if no one admires it?

The moon glows on the river, wind rustles the pines.Long night clear evening--what are they for?

It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.