The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

The wise person dines on something more subtle: He eats the understanding that the named was born from the unnamed, that all being flows from non-being, that the describable world emanates from an indescribable source.

We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable. We work with being, but non-being is what we use.

Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

Use the light to return to clarity.

Nothing is weaker than water, Yet for overcoming what is hard and strong, Nothing surpasses it.