The dog picks up a bone, a dry bone, there is nothing there, and then it bites, and the bone hurts the gums, and the blood comes out of it. And the dog believes — imagines, experiences, feels, whatever word you want to use — that the blood which is coming out of its own gums is from the bone. So that is the kind of trap in which the whole structure of thinking is caught up, and tries all the time to get out of that, the trap it has created.

UG Krishnamurti

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In truth, of course, I am a transcendental ego, but I am not conscious of this; being in a particular attitude, the natural attitude, I am completely given over to the object poles, completely bound by interests and tasks which are exclusively directed towards them.

Edmund Husserl, Cartesian Meditations

“How is it, Dr. Suzuki: We spent the evening asking you questions and nothing is decided.” Dr. Suzuki smiled and said: “That’s why I love philosophy: no one wins.”

To him everything was in process of destruction, everything was in process of construction. This is called tranquility in disturbance. Tranquility in disturbance means that it is especially in the midst of disturbance that [tranquility] becomes perfect.
Chuang-tzu

It rests in change.
Heraclitus