Through the empowerment of the Three Mysteries (body, speech, mind), buddhahood manifests with great swiftness.

Exoteric medicines sweep away dust; the mantra opens the treasure-house.

Birth after birth, the beginning of life remains dark; death after death, the end of death remains obscure.

People seek retreats in the country, by the sea, in the mountains — but you can retire into yourself whenever you choose.

-- Marcus Aurelius

Everything that is capable of turning back upon itself is incorporeal.

-- Porphyry

When the soul turns toward itself, it turns at the same time toward the divine.

-- Iamblichus

The unexamined life is not worth living.

-- Socrates

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

-- Laozi

All those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world have not any subsistence without a mind.

-- George Berkeley