Echoes

If a warrior is not unattached to life and death, he will be of no use whatsoever. The saying that "All abilities come from one mind" sounds as though it has to do with sentient matters, but it is in fact a matter of being unattached to life and death. With such non-attachment one can accomplish any feat.

Resolve your mental energy into abstraction, your physical energy into inaction. Allow yourself to fall in with the natural order of phenomena, without admitting the element of self,—and the empire will be governed.

Accept everything just the way it is.

We place the happy life in the security of the mind and in freedom from all obligations.

The Perfect Man uses his mind like a mirror — going after nothing, welcoming nothing, responding but not storing.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try, the world is beyond the winning.

Nowhere you can go is more peaceful — more free of interruptions — than your own soul.

You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Just practice good, do good for others, without thinking of making yourself known so that you may gain reward. Really bring benefit to others, gaining nothing for yourself. This is the primary requisite for breaking free of attachments to the Self.

Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.

Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind.

In pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

Abstinence is the nurse of the soul.

Not to display anger or other emotions. To be free of passion and yet full of love.

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

O God, give us the serenity to accept what cannot be changed, the courage to change what should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

How easy it is to repel and to wipe away every impression which is troublesome or unsuitable, and immediately to be in all tranquility.