Quantum physics has given a new life to lunatics everywhere, in the East, West, North and South, from proponents of ancient "wisdom" to New Age mysticism. Of course, the dirty little secret is that modern physics itself has become a kind of religion, complete with its priesthood and dogmatic incantations, but that's another subject.
So, what exactly does the Uncertainty Principle say?
In layman's terms, it says that we can never measure reality to exactitude, only approximations.
Now, all you need is a vague platitude from some ancient philosophy -- and these philosophies are chock full of them -- and we can claim a match.
How about, "the search for truth/nirvana/enlightenment is an endless journey".
There we go. With enough skill, we can claim that this statement is equivalent to the Uncertainty Principle: the ultimate truth can never be found, one can only get closer and closer but never reach it.
The irony is that 99% of the pop-scientists who pontificate about the Uncertainty Principle (pronounced with capital letters, of course!) as a fundamental law of nature don't know that it also lies on unproven assumptions. Even most physicists won't admit it until they are cornered. A fundamental law of nature that is based on unproven assumptions should be taken with a grain of salt.
Basically, the assumption is that the act of observing reality changes it, and that it is impossible to measure anything without affecting the thing being measured. (In this case, we use photons to see particles and the interaction with the photon changes the particle.) Nobody has proven this assumption; we take it for granted.