In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
He who knows his soul knows this truth: “I am beyond everything finite; I now see that the Spirit, alone in a space with its ever-new joy, has expressed itself as the vast body of nature…I am the wisdom and power that sustain all creation.”
The only real conflict you will ever have in your life won’t be with others but with yourself.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with Spring.
You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra; By alchemy you may earn your livelihood; You may wander through the universe incognito; Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful; You may walk on water and live in fire; But control of the mind is better and more difficult.
