The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.

Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.

When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.

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

Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.

When I look at what the world does and where people nowadays believe they can find happiness, I am not sure that that is true happiness. The happiness of these ordinary people seems to consist in slavishly imitating the majority, as if this were their only choice. And yet they all believe they are happy. I cannot decide whether that is happiness or not. Is there such a thing as happiness?

When you're dreaming, you don't know it's a dream. You might even interpret a dream in your dream - and then wake up and realize it was all a dream. Perhaps a great awakening will reveal this to be a dream as well.