When the highest type of people hear Tao (Truth), they diligently practice it. When the average type of people hear Tao, they half believe in it. When the lowest type of people hear Tao, they laugh at it. If they did not laugh, it would not be Tao.
To have little is to possess.
What the Way is to the world, the stream is to the river and the sea.
Attending fully and becoming supple, Can you be as a newborn babe?
Be merciful, moderate, and modest.
Whatever is flexible and living will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die.