Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.
The great Way is very straight, but people prefer to deviate.
Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
To delight in conquest is to delight in slaughter.
The Great Tao flows everywhere, to the left and to the right, all things depend on it to exist, and it does not abandon them. To its accomplishments it lays no claims. It loves and nourished all things, but does not lord it over them.
You cannot know the body by studying the finger, and you cannot understand the universe by learning one science.