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

When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.

The universe is deathless; Is deathless because, having no finite self, it stays infinite. A sound man by not advancing himself stays the further ahead of himself, By not confining himself to himself sustains himself outside himself: By never being an end in himself he endlessly becomes himself.

Great, it passes on (in constant flow).

The sage acts by doing nothing.

The sage regards things as difficult, and thereby avoids difficulty.

Act without doing; work without effort. Think of the small as large and the few as many. Confront the difficult while it is still easy; accomplish the great task by a series of small acts. The Master never reaches for the great; thus she achieves greatness. When she runs into a difficulty, she stops and gives herself to it. She doesn't cling to her own comfort; thus problems are no problem for her.