The Archive
Thirty teachings. Seven traditions. One river.
“You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
“Knowing others is wisdom. Knowing yourself is enlightenment.”
“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”
“As above, so below; as below, so above. As within, so without; as without, so within.”
“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.”
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there.”
“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.”
“The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name.”
“If you want to know the past, look at your present. If you want to know the future, look at your present.”
“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me.”
“He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a man who is alive.”
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”
“The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight.”
“The present moment always will have been.”
“There is no fire like passion, no shark like hatred, no snare like folly, no torrent like greed.”
“The lips of wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding.”
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
“The wound is the place where the light enters you.”
“What we are looking for is what is looking.”
“The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control.”
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind.”
“When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”
“The universe is mental — held in the mind of the All.”
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
“Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”
“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.”
“In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.”