Above all, a teacher does not depend on a method and drill systematic routines; instead, he studies each individual student and awakens him to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately integrate himself with his being.

Such teaching, which is really no teaching, requires a sensitive mind with great flexibility and is difficult to come by nowadays.

A teacher, a good teacher that is, functions as a pointer to truth, but not a giver of truth. He employs a minimum of form to lead his student to the formless. Furthermore, he points out the importance of being able to enter a mold without being imprisoned by it, or to follow the principles without being bound by them.

A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence. It is easy to teach one to be skillful, but it is difficult to teach him his own attitude. Each moment during teaching requires a full alert and sensitive mind that is constantly adjusting and constantly changing.

Give recognition where it is due. Complements definitely stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.

Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.

Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.

The knowledge and skill you have achieved are after all meant to be “forgotten” so you can float in emptiness without obstruction and comfortably.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.

Life is wise, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.

Life is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

The more we value things, the less we value ourselves.

To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.

You will never get any more out of life than you expect.

False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.

Realize the fact that you simply “live” and not “live for”.

When tomorrow comes, you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.

Living exists when life lives through us – unhampered in its flow, for he who is living is not conscious of living and, in this, is the life it lives.

Life lives; and in the living flow, no questions are raised. The reason is that life is a living now! So, in order to live life whole-heartedly, the answer is life simply is.

Life is simply what our feelings do to us.

I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.

He who wants to succeed should learn how to fight, to strive, and to suffer. You can acquire a lot in life, if you are prepared to give up a lot to get it.

To many, the word “success” seems to be a paradise, but now that I’m in the midst of it, it is nothing but circumstances that seem to complicate my innate feeling toward simplicity and privacy.

Masters in all branches of art must first be masters in living, for the soul creates everything.

Life is an ever-flowing process and somewhere on the path some unpleasant things will pop up – it might leave a scar, but then life is flowing, and life running water, when it stops it grows stale.

A simple life is one of plainness, in which profit is discarded, cleverness abandoned, selfishness eliminated, and desires reduced.

Life is never stagnation. It is a constant movement, unrhythmic movement, as well as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.

It is the life of perfection which seems to be incomplete, and of fullness which seems to be empty. It is the life which is as bright as light, but does not dazzle. In short, it is a life of harmony, unity, contentment, tranquility, constancy, enlightenment, peace, and long life.

Life is something for which there is no answer; it must be understood from moment to moment.

Real living is living for others.

If you knew you had to fight for your life tomorrow, would you change your training today?

Growth is the constant discovery and understanding in one’s process of living

While we are still alive, we have to discover ourselves, understand ourselves, and express ourselves.

The fact is that we live only on such a small percentage of our potential: you do not allow yourself to be totally yourself, society does not allow you to be totally yourself.

I really dig exercise. When I’m jogging early in the morning, boy! It’s sure refreshing.

Only eat what your body requires, and don’t become carried away with foods that don’t benefit you.

Only actions give to life its strength, as only moderation gives it its charm.

Preserve yourself by following the natural bends of things and don’t interfere.

Stand at the neutral point between negative and positive, no longer directing one’s mind to anything.

There is “what is” only when there is no comparison at all, and to live with what is, is to be peaceful.

Serene, detached from all results, ready to fight or run, to win or lose, and always ready to laugh at all things, take whatever comes.

Your child is ill you say, or you cannot pay the rent? Very well, accept these facts and face them.

Are they not trouble enough in themselves without adding the aggravation of worry to them?

When one wishes to expand, one must first contract. When one wishes to be strong, one must first be weak. When one wishes to take, one must first give. Everything in this world has the alternative of existence and nonexistence (positive and negative).