“The capacity of the mind is great, like the emptiness of space… The marvelous nature of the ordinary person is fundamentally empty and has no fixed character. Such is the truly sky-like quality of one’s natural self… The emptiness of universal space can contain the myriad things of every shape and form—the sun, moon, and stars, the mountains and rivers, the great earth with its springs, streams, and waterfalls, grass, trees, and dense forests, its sinners and saints, and the ways of good and evil… All these are in the void, and the ordinary person’s nature is void in just this way.”

— Alan Watts quoting Hui-neng, Nature, Man And Woman