“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

“God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly—not one.”

Presenting contrasting experiences as a means of spiritual growth · Fihi ma fihi (prose discourse; translation varies)

• Faith
• Hope

“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