Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery.

You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.

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?

So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself for jumping.

A person who thinks too much only ever thinks about his thoughts

Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.