The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.
True refinement seeks simplicity.
The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
You need emotional content.
The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.
Taoist philosophy is essentially monistic. Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.