37 Quotes by Wei Wu Wei

What is your trouble? Mistaken identity.

As long as there is a ‘you’ doing or not-doing, thinking or not-thinking, ‘meditating’ or ‘not-meditating’ you are no closer to home than the day you were born.

Are we not wasps who spend all day in a fruitless attempt to traverse a window-pane – while the other half of the window is wide open?

We do not possess an ‘ego.’ We are possessed by the idea of one.

Do not mistake the pointing finger for the moon.

Reintegration with Nature, which we are, is the recovery of spontaneity.

It is only with total humility, and in absolute stillness of mind that we can know what indeed we are.

There is no mystery whatever – only inability to perceive the obvious.

All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept.