Wei Wu Wei Quotes

Play your part in the comedy, but don't identify yourself with your role!

There seem to two kinds of searchers: those who seek to make their ego something other than it is, i.e. holy, happy, unselfish (as though you could make a fish unfish), and those who understand that all such attempts are just gesticulation and play-acting, that there is only one thing that can be done, which is to disidentify themselves with the ego, by realising its unreality, and by becoming aware of their eternal identity with pure being.

There is no mystery whatever — only inability to perceive the obvious.

What is your trouble? Mistaken identity.

The writer of these lines has nothing whatsoever to teach anyone; his words are just his contribution to our common discussion of what must inevitably be for us the most important subject which could be discussed by sentient beings.

Wise men don't judge: they seek to understand.

Doctrines, scriptures, sutras, essays, are not to be regarded as systems to be followed. They merely contribute to understanding. They should be for us a source of stimulation, and nothing more... Adopted, rather than used as a stimulus, they are a hindrance

Are we not wasps who spend all day in a fruitless attempt to traverse a window-pane — while the other half of the window is wide open?

One must know that one is not in order to be able to understand that we are.

In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow — and that is likely to hurt.

All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept.

Realisation is a matter of becoming conscious of that which is already realised.

The seeing of Truth cannot be dualistic (a 'thing' seen). It cannot be seen by a see-er, or via a see-er. There can only be a seeing which itself is Truth.

The qualities we possess should never be a matter for satisfaction, but the qualities we have discarded.

There is no becoming. ALL IS.