• Preoccupation with the past is the study of echoes. Preoccupation with the future is the exercise of imagination.

• Whatever is to come, let it come. Whatever is to leave, let it leave. To believe that this requires effort is an error. What effort must a towel make to absorb water?

• Searching for clarity is like trying to fall in love. Love happens on its own terms, as does clarity.

• To be a person requires energy. To be, does not.

• No-mind cannot be known. Since the mind cannot register its own absence, how is this to be known?

• Stop trying to quench this thirst by drinking the sound of water.

• The truth does not set you free. The truth reveals that you’ve always been free.

• Trying not to think is like trying to stop grass from growing by screaming at it.

• When a lamp is brought into a dark room, one sees what is already there.