“الأراضى المجاورة، قريبةٌ بحيث إنّ أىّ إنسانٍ، يستطيع سماع نباح الكلاب،و صياح الديكة عبر الطريق. إلا أن الناس هنا، يهرَمون، و يموتون، دون أن يتبادلوا كلمةَ واحدةً مع جيرانهم.”

“Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it”

“Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.”

“that the musical notes and tones become harmonious through the relation of one with another; and that being before and behind give the idea of one following another.”

“Just remain in the center; watching. And then forget that you are there.”

“The hard and mighty lie beneath the groundWhile the tender and weak dance on the breeze above.”

“It is the child that sees the primordial secret of Nature and it is the child of ourselves we return to. the child within us is simple and daring enough to live the Secret.”