We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
More and more as we come closer and closer to Nature, we see the primary necessity of simplicity of living.
Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
The punctuation of simple sentences and the natural pauses in conversation is what brings it to life.
