When two opposing sides meet in battle, the one without an enemy will be victorious.

He does not seek glory - yet people respect him.

If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself, if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

Can you open and close the gate of Heaven and act like a woman?

The Master keeps her mind always at one with the Tao; that is what gives her her radiance. The Tao is ungraspable. How can her mind be at one with it? Because she doesn't cling to ideas. The Tao is dark and unfathomable. How can it make her radiant? Because she lets it. Since before time and space were, the Tao is. It is beyond is and is not. How do I know this is true? I look inside myself and see.

The wise man, after learning something new, is afraid to learn anything more until he has put his first lesson into practice.

It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in silence in which at last we begin to hear what we are meant to be.