The wake doesn't drive the ship

The problem is to overcome the ingrained disbelief in the power of winning nature by love, in the gentle (ju) way (do) of turning with the skid, of controlling ourselves by cooperating with ourselves.

The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away.

Time is a social institution and not a physical reality. There is no such thing as time in the natural world - the world of stars and waters, clouds, mountains and living organisms. There is such a thing as rhythm - rhythm of tides, rhythm of biological processes... There is rhythm and there is motion. Time is a way of measuring motion.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

When you really understand that you are what you see and know, you do not run around the countryside thinking, "I am all this!" There is simply all this.

What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.