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.

"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."

Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.

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

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.