Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.

The Tao belongs neither to knowing nor not knowing. Knowing is false understanding; not knowing is blind ignorance. If you really understand the Tao beyond doubt, it's like the empty sky. Why drag in right and wrong?

The anitya doctrine is, again, not quite the simple assertion that the world is impermanent, but rather that the more one grasps at the world, the more it changes.

The question is not what I should do in the future to get it, but rather, what am I presently doing that prevents me from realizing it right now?

To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

A paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention.