“Vigilance is the way of immortality;
heedlessness the abode of death.
Those who are vigilant will not die,
but the heedless are already as dead.”

“He stays with the business of not-doing,
He lives the tenet of not-talking.
… this one calls mystical virtues.”

“For enlightenment nothing else is needed than freedom,
namely the most harmless amongst all
what may be called freedom,
namely this one:
to make public use of one’s reason
in all aspects.”