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.

Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven.

Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?

If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.

To know one's ignorance is the best part of knowledge.

Use the light that is in you to recover your natural clearness of sight

The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not malign, straight but not severe, bright but not dazzling.