If a great country yields to a small country, it will conquer the small country. If a small country yields to a great country, it will be conquered by the great country.

The brittle is easy to shatter.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

When his (the good ruler's) task is accomplished and his work done, The people all say, "It happened to us naturally.

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short and long, life and death? Can you let go of all these dualities and embrace the Tao without skepticism or panic? If so, you can reach the heart of the Integral Oneness.