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

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.

If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.

Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later.

If there is existence, there must be non-existence. And if there was a time when nothing existed, there must have been a time before that - when even nothing did not exist. Suddenly, when nothing came into existence, could one really say whether it belonged to the category of existence or non-existence?

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.

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