"Throw everything away, forget about it all! You are learning too much, remembering too much, trying to hard... relax a little bit, give life a chance to flow its own way, unassisted by your mind and effort. Stop directing the river's flow!"
"When your inner dependency on form is gone..the outer forms, tend to improve greatly. Things, people, or conditions that you thought you needed for your happiness now come to you with no struggle or effort on your part, and you are free to enjoy and appreciate them -...
"We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance and seriousness, it demands such intensity of effort, that to attempt it any old way and amongst other things is impossible....
"It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free."
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
"You must understand that ordinary efforts do not count; only super efforts count."
"The whole effort of a Jesus or a Buddha or a Bodhidharma is nothing but how to undo that which society has done to you."