Taoism

A drop of water has the tastes of the water of the seven seas: there is no need to experience all the ways of worldly life. The reflections of the moon on one thousand rivers are from the same moon: the mind must be full of light. - Hung Tzu Ch'eng

A sage knows by intuitive wisdom, not limited by what he sees and hears only. In the whole universe, there is nothing that is not me. - Zhang Dai

In the morning, hear the Way; in the evening, die content! - Confucius

Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. - Mencius

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else. - Mencius

Taking the first footstep with a good thought, the second with a good word, and the third with a good deed, I entered paradise. - Zoroaster

When you are deluded and full of doubt, even a thousand books of scripture are not enough. When you have realized understanding, even one word is too much. - Fen-yang

To study The Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things. - Dogen