He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

The Portal of God is nonexistence. All things sprang from nonexistence. Existence could not make existence existence. It must have proceeded from nonexistence, and nonexistence and nothing are one. Herein is the abiding place of the sage.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.

Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.

The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow. The longer he lives, the more stupid he becomes, because his anxiety to avoid unavoidable death becomes more and more acute. What bitterness! He lives for what is always out of reach! His thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable of living in the present.

Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone