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

Face the simple fact before it comes involved. Solve the small problem before it becomes big.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it.

The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people.

Every being in the universe is an expression of the Tao. It springs into existence, unconscious, perfect, free, takes on a physical body, lets circumstances complete it. That is why every being spontaneously honors the Tao. The Tao gives birth to all beings, nourishes them, maintains them, cares for them, comforts them, protects them, takes them back to itself, creating without possessing, acting without expecting, guiding without interfering. That is why love of the Tao is in the very nature of things.

Those who would take over the earth and shape it to their will, never, I notice succeed.