When man is living, he is soft and pliable; when he is dead, he becomes rigid. Pliability is life; rigidity is death, whether we are speaking of the body, the mind, or the spirit. Be pliable.

Rituals can be a physical way to acknowledge the passage from one way of being into another.

This sense of freedom results from learning how to flow effortlessly in life.

if you must compete, if that is a model that drives you (for now), then compete with yourself. Push yourself. Top yourself. Grow yourself.

To be consciously unconscious or to be unconsciously conscious is the secret to nirvana. The act is so direct and immediate that no intellection finds room to insert itself and cut it to pieces.

Remember that practice doesn’t make us perfect; it makes us better.

change with change is the changeless state.” In other words, when I express my true self and move with the world rather than against it, then change becomes something to flow with rather than resist.

Right Livelihood BL Translation: Your livelihood must not conflict with your therapy.

“I cannot and will not scoff at faith when reason seems to be such a barren thing.”