The measure of a person's disposition is this: ... how great is the distance between his understanding and his actions. Basically we all understand the highest. A child, the simplest person, and the wisest all understand the highest. ... But what makes the difference is whether we understand it at a distance—so that we do not act accordingly, or close at hand—so that we act accordingly and "cannot do otherwise." Works of Love

“No one had any reason to be dissatisfied with what he had seen no one, that is, except for the starvation artist, he alone, always.”  A Hunger Artist

"It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve, and bad things are very easy to get." The Analects of Confucius

Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation. Book VIII