Zen

In order to arrive at pleasure in everything, you must seek pleasure in nothing.

In order to arrive at possessing everything, you must seek to possess nothing.

In order to arrive at being everything, you must seek to be nothing.

In order to arrive at knowing everything, you must seek to know nothing.

In order to arrive at that in which you find no pleasure, you must go by a way there is no pleasure.

In order to arrive at that which you do not know, you must go by a way youdo not know.

In order to arrive at that which you do not possess, you must go by a way of dispossession.

In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go by a way in which youare not.

Saint John of the Cross, Spanish mystic and poet (1542-1591)