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.

Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?

Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from the mighty peaks to the smallest of the tiny flowers hidden in the meadow's grass.

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.

Guard against idols -- yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.

Why do you pray if you doubt you are heard?