The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream.

Activity conquers coldness. Stillness conquers heat.

If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man.

The soft and weak can overcome the hard and strong.

How can one liberate the many? By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering himself. He lowers himself to that which is simple, modest, true; integrating it into himself, he becomes a master of simplicity, modesty, truth.

The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing.

Who is there who can make muddy waters clear? But if allowed to remain still, it will gradually clear itself.