"Cut out doors and windows for the..." - Quote by Lao Tzu

“If you want to be given everything, give everything up.”

“Going forward seems like retreat.”

“Who can wait in stillness while the mud settles?”

“Shape clay into a vessel;It is the space within that makes it useful.Cut doors and windows for a room;It is the holes which make it useful.Therefore benefit comes from what is there;Usefulness from what is not there.”

“Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to the degree of his intellect, the particular standard of his reasonableness.”

“As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.”

“Poor empty pants With nobody inside them.”

“There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.”

“I don't think drugs are a problem; I think they're a symptom. As long as Americans are empty, spiritually, emotionally, morally empty, they will need things like the drugs they choose to use. Mankind has wanted to change the way it felt from the beginning anyway. In this country there are even more reasons to want to feel different, to want to feel better, because this is such a neon sewer. This is such a degrading culture. It forces you to play Beethoven to your child in the uterus so that he will get into a better school and a better job and make more money so he can take care of you.”