Act without striving. Work without interfering. Find the flavour in what is flavourless.

Abandon fancy theologies and imaginary ideas and do some ordinary daily work... {Engage in this work with} unswerving kindness and unending patience.

The way to use life is to do nothing through acting, The way to use life is to do everything through being.

Can you comprehend everything in the four directions and still do nothing?

Praise of power leads to weakness; Love of things leads to loss; The wise one leads by filling people's hearts; He destroys illusion and disturbs those who believe they are wise; He does nothing yet everything happens.

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

If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man.