"You and your brain are two things. The brain is your machinery just like everything else is your machinery. This hand is my mechanism; I use it. My brain is my mechanism; I use it."
My Mechanism
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Self
Surrender
"You come to the master only in deep humbleness, because learning is possible only in humbleness. You have come to surrender, not to perform, not to manipulate, not to impress."
The Zen Approach
"This is the Zen approach: nothing is there to be done. There is nothing to do. One has just to be. Have a rest and be ordinary and be natural."
Move
"Let him that would move the world first move himself."
The Principles
"I cannot abandon the principles which I used to hold in the past simply because this accident has happened to me; they seem to me to be much as they were, and I respect and regard the same principles now as before. So unless we can find better principles on this...
A Man of Courage
"He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy."
You
"Be as you wish to seem."
Treasure in Everyone
"Like a sculptor, if necessary, carve a friend out of stone. Realize that your inner sight is blind and try to see a treasure in everyone."
Let the Lover Be
"Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be."
Give up to Grace
"Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know."