When the mind that is subtle goes out through the brain and the sense-organs, the gross names and forms appear; when it stays in the heart, the names and forms disappear.

时间并不存在。对于河水来说，只有当下。没有过去，没有未来。

The historian must be a poet, not to create, but to recreate.

Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her look like a public building.