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

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

Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.

When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten.

Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.

The Tao is in all things, in their divisions and their fullness. What I dislike about divisions is that they multiply, and what i dislike about multiplication is that it makes people want to hold fast to it. So people go out and forget to return, seeing little more than ghosts.

Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.

My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.

Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.

Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.

For all people strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.

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

Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views-then the world will be governed.

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.

Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels. Such is the real nature of horses.

If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.

The mirrors in your mind can reflect the best of yourself, not the worst of someone else.

I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.

The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

Quote me as much as you like; as a matter of fact I don’t even mind if you misquote me !

I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people.

One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.