You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

In school, you are given the lesson first. One the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

I have arrived. I am home in the here, in the now. I am solid. I am free. In the ultimate I dwell.

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad.

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.