Source: Fingers Pointing Towards the Moon: Reflections of a Pilgrim on the Way
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Famous Wei Wu Wei Quotes
Source: All Else is Bondage: Non-volitional Living
“The Saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The Sage is a man who rids himself of his ego.”
“It is less what one is that should matter, than what one is not.”
“Reintegration with Nature, which we are, is the recovery of spontaneity.”
Source: Open Secret
Source: Open Secret
“Play your part in the comedy, but don't identify yourself with your role!”
Source: The Tenth Man: The Great Joke (Which Made Lazarus Laugh)
“As long as one accepts "time" tacitly as such he is dreaming a dream, not living a life.”
Source: The Tenth Man: The Great Joke (Which Made Lazarus Laugh)
“In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow - and that is likely to hurt.”
Source: Posthumous Pieces
“THIS which is seeking is THAT which is sought, and THAT which is sought is THIS which is seeking.”
“We do not possess an 'ego.' We are possessed by the idea of one.”
“Realisation is a matter of becoming conscious of that which is already realised.”
“All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept.”
“There is no mystery whatever - only inability to perceive the obvious.”
Source: Open Secret