Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?

When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten; when the belt fits, the belly is forgotten; when the heart is right, "for" and "against" are forgotten. There is no change in what is inside, no following what is outside, when the adjustment to events is comfortable. One begins with what is comfortable and never experiences what is uncomfortable, when one knows the comfort of forgetting what is comfortable.

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

All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.

There is danger for the eye in seeing too clearly, danger for the ear in hearing too sharply and danger to the heart from caring too greatly.

One whose inner being is fixed upon such greatness emits a Heavenly glow. Even though he has this Heavenly glow, others will see him as just a man. Someone who has reached this point will begin to be consistent.

The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.