Chaos is always losing, but never defeated

The wake doesn't drive the ship

...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature.

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

We think that the world is limited and explained by its past. We tend to think that what happened in the past determines what is going to happen next, and we do not see that it is exactly the other way around! What is always the source of the world is the present; the past doesn't explain a thing. The past trails behind the present like the wake of a ship and eventually disappears.

The menu is not the meal.

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.