Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course? Can you step back from you own mind and thus understand all things? Giving birth and nourishing, having without possessing, acting with no expectations, leading and not trying to control: this is the supreme virtue.

The Way is ever nameless.

The best way to manage anything is by making use of its own nature.

Thorn bushes grow where armies have camped.

When Simplicity is broken up, it is made into instruments. Evolved individuals who employ them, are made into leaders. In this way, the Great System is United.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

All things carry yin and embrace yang. They reach harmony by blending with the vital breath.