Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle.

Activity conquers coldness. Stillness conquers heat.

Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.

The Way that can be walked is not the eternal Way.

Who has excess and supplies the world? Only the one who follows the Way.

A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly, without any interference of the conscious will. This is a paradigm for non-action: the purest and most effective form of action. The game plays the game; the poem writes the poem; we can't tell the dancer from the dance. It happens when we trust the intelligence of the universe in the same way that an athlete or a dancer trusts the superior intelligence of the body.