When there is no more separation between 'this' and 'that,' it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.

Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection.

Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.

When I talk about having good hearing, I don't mean just listening, but listening to yourself. When I talk about good eyesight, I don't mean just looking, but looking at yourself.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water - they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.

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

The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.