How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not like a man who, having left home in his youth, has forgotten the way back?

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy.

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

The tao is made because we walk it,things become what they are called.

Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.

Fish live in water. Men die in it.Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.