The purest white seems stained.

Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

If you go searching for the Great Creator, you will come back empty-handed. The source of the universe is ultimately unknowable, a great invisible river flowing forever through a vast and fertile valley. Silent and uncreated, it creates all things.

To have little is to possess.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

To be constantly without desire is the way to have a vision of the mystery of heaven and earth. For constantly to have desire is the means by which their limitations are seen.

The further one goes, the less (he realizes he) one knows.