Not praising the deserving prevents envy.

Do not imagine that an integral being has the ambition of enlightening the unaware or raising worldly people to the divine realm. To her, there is no self and other, and hence no one to be raised; no heaven and hell, and hence no destination.

Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.

We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable. We work with being, but non-being is what we use.

Stillness is easy to maintain.

The light of the Way seems dim.

When the palace is magnificent, the fields are filled with weeds, and the granaries are empty.