“We listen to it, and we do not hear it, and we name it 'the Inaudible.”

“We look at it, and we do not see it, and we name it 'the Equable.”

“We try to grasp it, and do not get hold of it, and we name it 'the Subtle.”

“To know and yet (think) we do not know is the highest (attainment); not to know (and yet think) we do know is a disease.”

“Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?”

“We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holdswhatever we want.”

“We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness insidethat holds whatever we want.We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner spacethat makes it livable.We work with being, but non-being is what we use.”