If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.

Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!

You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.

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.

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

He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.

I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.