“How long will you be content with the outward form? Go to the meaning, for the meaning is the root and the outward form is only its branch.”

Urging readers to look beyond appearances towards inward significance · Fihi ma fihi (prose discourse; translation varies)

• Beauty
• Truth

“The cause of the world's being is heedlessness; if there were no heedlessness, there would be no world.”

A paradoxical reflection on consciousness, distraction, and existence · Fihi ma fihi (prose discourse; translation varies)

• Mortality
• Truth

“The craft of the physician is to remove the cause of illness, not merely to treat the symptoms.”

Using healing as an image for addressing the source rather than the surface of a problem · Fihi ma fihi (prose discourse; translation varies)

• Hope
• Truth