By following this simple path, you become extraordinary, unfathomable, a being of profound cosmic subtlety. You outlive time and space by realizing the subtle truth of the universe.

The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors. It is through this that they suffer famine.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union.

That so few understand me is why I am treasured.

Use your light, but dim your brightness.