1. As difficult as it is to understand you, it is that much more difficult to make you understand.
2. To hide the shame of accomplishing nothing in life, he finally went ahead and got married!
3. Above the head... ashen sky. Beneath the feet... scorched earth. In the taste of air... sweat's offering.
4. I haven't burned to ash; is that why you still seek fire within me?
5. In moonlight the moon is lost. Yet the moon still seeks the moon.
6. The waterfall's stream flows in one direction... through stone after stone in countless channels —the path of truth is just the same!
7. One who can accept truth without a mask— I call that person wise.
8. Turn your back to the light and shadow falls before you. Turn your face to the light and shadow retreats behind.
9. Truth can never be told outright, so truth must be understood.
10. One who has the power to love is never alone. Loneliness befriends only those who cannot even meet themselves!
11. The more one knows one's own faith and beliefs, the more one respects others' faiths and beliefs.
12. The more you break others' gods, the more your own god breaks.
13. Whatever neither gives nor takes peace is not love, but merely relationship.
14. In whatever is good for someone, there dwells their god. God differs as humans differ.
15. Making one's own life beloved to one's own god, abandoning the desire to make others' lives beloved to one's own god, —these two are the true religion of humanity.
16. By the wheel of intention destiny turns.
17. Better to win through trust than lose through distrust.
18. One who knows how to be a king is king in crown, king in tattered clothes.
19. The power to love and the power to remain well —if both grow in you at equal pace, then your heart will never break in any age.
20. When desire forgets faith and surrenders to reason's feet, that's when failure comes.