The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is

The 'you' who you think you are does not exist.

To the Taoist mentality, the aimless, empty life does not suggest anything depressing. On the contrary, it suggests the freedom of clouds and mountain streams, wandering nowhere, of flowers in impenetrable canyons, beautiful for no one to see, and of the ocean surf forever washing the sand, to no end.

For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal with you. Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

Everything is perpetually becoming new.