Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy

There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning ... There is something. There is nothing.

Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.

Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!

The fact is that those who do not see themselves but who see others, who fail to grasp of themselves but who grasp others, take possession of what others have but fail to possess themselves. they are attracted to what others enjoy but fail to find enjoyment in themselves.

Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.