When the student is ready the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready… The teacher will disappear.

Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.

To hold, you must first open your hand. Let go.

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.

Stop thinking, and end your problems.

Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. Stop running away and you will be found.

Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.

Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.

Become totally empty.
Quiet the restlessness of the mind
only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

There is no illusion greater than fear.

– Lao Tzu