We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening

Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.

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

He who dreams ... does not know he is dreaming... . Only when he awakens does he know he has dreamt. But there is also the great awakening (ta-chiao), and then we see that [everything] here is nothing but a great dream. Of course, the fools believe that they are already awake-what foolishness! Confucius and you, both of you, are dreams; and I, who tell you this, am also a dream.

Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.

Heaven is like an egg, and the earth is like the yolk of the egg.

A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.