“The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.”

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.

He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.

Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.

A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.

Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.

The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.

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

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

Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.

The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.

The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.

Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.

We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures.

Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.

If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.

I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind.

With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.

I believe in mind over matter and doing anything you set your mind on.

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

When composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.

Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.

The brain, the mind, and all the things that happen inside it, it’s a very erogenous zone.

One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.