Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.

A man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool.

In a river mist, if another boat knocks against yours, you might yell at the other fellow to stay clear. But if you notice then, that it's an empty boat, adrift with nobody aboard, you stop yelling. When you discover that all the others are drifting boats, there's no one to yell at. And when you find out you are an empty boat, there's no one to yell.

A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.

The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

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.