If we don't know life, how can we know death?

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.

The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant.

Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties.

Who expects to be able to go out of a house except by the door? How is it then that no one follows this Way of ours?

The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct