When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

The Master views the parts with compassion, because he understands the whole. His constant practice is humility. He doesn't glitter like a jewel but lets himself be shaped by the Tao, as rugged and common as a stone.

The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like a tree in the wind, he has no destination in view and makes use of anything life happens to bring his way.

That, which others compress - will widen up and open. That, which others weaken - will strengthen. That, which others destroy - will blossom. Whoever wished to take something from the other, will inevitably loose his own.

Build up virtue, and you master all.

ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim.

If you have really attained wholeness, everything will flock to you.