What have you done with the Garden
that was entrusted
to you?

if you want the truth, I'll tell you the truth,
friend, listen -
the god whom I love
is inside

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience

"Peace...comes within the souls of [human beings] when they realize…that at the center of the Universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere. It is within each of us."

A wise man once asked me, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" I thought for a minute, then I slapped him across the face. That got him off my back.

The tao is made because we walk it,
things become what they are called.

So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless. It is said, those who lose themselves in their desire for things also lose their innate nature by being vulgar.

Changes

The Changes is a book
From which one may not hold aloof
Its tao is forever changing -
Alteration, movement without rest,
Flowing through the six empty places;
Rising and sinking without fixed law,
Firm and yielding transform each other.
They cannot be confined within a rule;
It is only change that is at work here.

Be who you are and say what you feel
Because those who mind don't matter
And those who matter don't mind

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.