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.

Your soul isn't in your body; your body is in your soul!

We know that from time to time there arise among human beings people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of the self, or of the Godhead, or whatever one may choose to call it.

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

The source of all light is in the eye.