Nurture the spontaneous peaceful life.

When the ancient Masters said, "If you want to be given everything, give everything up," they weren't using empty phrases. Only in being lived by the Tao can you be truly yourself.

If you worry more for others' beliefs, then you will be their slave.

When the worst student hears about the Way, he laughs out loud. If he did not laugh, it would be unworthy of being the Way.

If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering.

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.

Give up learning, and put an end to your troubles.