The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing.

If you overesteem great men, people become powerless. If you overvalue possessions, people begin to steal. The Master leads by emptying people's minds and filling their cores, by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve. He helps people lose everything they know, everything they desire, and creates confusion in those who think that they know. Practice not-doing, and everything will fall into place.

Everything in the universe is created from something, which in turn is created from nothing.

When you are sick of your sickness you will cease to be sick.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance.

A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant.