When equal armies battle, the grieving one will be victorious.

The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.

Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; and shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets one's heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he or she is automatically involved in fear of losing status.

Hold on to the ancient Way to master the present, and to learn the distant beginning.

Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of happiness.

Most of the world's religions serve only to strengthen attachments to false concepts such as self and other, life and death, heaven and earth, and so on. Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness.

Quiet your mind and stop judging and resisting and manipulating the natural way.