The intelligence being unconscious of positive and negative implies that the heart (hsin) is at ease. - Alan Watts

If a man seeks the Buddha, that man loses the Buddha.

We are really stuck with ourselves, and our attempts to reject or to accept are equally fruitless, for they fail to reach that inaccessible center of our selfhood which is trying to do the accepting or the rejecting.

The structure of your organism, of your senses and nerves, endows the world with all its sensible and measurable properties — for rocks cannot seem to be hard except in relation to soft skin.