Stop leaving and you will arrive, Stop searching and you will see, Stop running away and you will be found.

Practice not-doing and everything will fall into place.

The Tao principle is what happens of itself.

Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.

When men lack a sense of awe, there will be disaster.

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

We put thirty spokes to make a wheel: But it is on the hole in the center that the use of the cart hinges. We make a vessel from a lump of clay; But it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful. We make doors and windows for a room; But it is the empty spaces that make the room livable. Thus, while existence has advantages, It is the emptiness that makes it useful.