Your failures and misfortunes don't threaten other people. . .It's your assets and your successes that are problems for people who derive their self-esteem from being superior.

Even after many years, kata practice is never finished, for there is always something new to be learned about executing a movement.

If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don't abide in borrowed certainty. There is no real certainty until you burn; if you wish for this, sit down in the fire.

Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.

Beware of those who weep with realization, for they have realized nothing.

You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.