Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return.

Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

Those who seek knowledge, collect something every day. Those who seek the Way, let go of something every day.

A follower of the Way (Tao) loses something each day. Loss after loss until arriving at Non Action (Wu Wei).

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.

Of the second-rate leaders people speak respectfully saying, "He has done this, he has done that." Of the first-rate leaders, they do not say this. They say, "We have done it all ourselves."

If princes and kings could follow it (Tao), all things would by themselves abide, Heaven and Earth would unite and sweet dew would fall. People would by themselves find harmony, without being commanded.