The great Way is easy, yet people prefer the side paths. Be aware when things are out of balance. Stay centered within the Tao. When rich speculators prosper While farmers lose their land; when government officials spend money on weapons instead of cures; when the upper class is extravagant and irresponsible while the poor have nowhere to turn- all this is robbery and chaos. It is not in keeping with the Tao.

It is because every one tinder Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty that the idea of ugliness exists.

People who have to fight for their living and are not afraid to die for it are higher persons than those who, stationed high, are too fat to dare to die.

Tao loves and nourishes all things, but does not dominate it over them.

Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes.

Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.

By steadily disciplining the animal nature, until it becomes one pointed, it is possible to establish conscious awareness of The Eternal.