You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of … Nothing is left but to love.

You yourself are the eternal energy which appears as this universe. You didn't come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.

Taoism is a way of liberation, which never comes by means of revolution, since it is notorious that most revolutions establish worse tyrannies than they destroy.

The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is simply to release any images and emotions.

Buddhism ... is not a culture but a critique of culture, an enduring nonviolent revolution or "loyal opposition" to the culture in which it is involved.