There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.

Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.

"To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse, make it feel good, is the great skill."

Nature has a language of its own, or maybe those who have lived long in solitude read in it their own unconscious inner feelings and mysterious foreknowledge.

All things are aggregations of atoms that dance & by their movement produce sound. When the rhythm of the dance changes, the sound it produces also changes... Each atom perpetually sings its song, and the sound at every moment creates dense subtle forms.

The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.

There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.