The softest in the world surpasses the hardest in the world.

The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry.

Worlds and particles, bodies and beings, time and space: All are transient expressions of the Tao.

Therefore, if a great kingdom humbles itself before a small kingdom, it shall make that small kingdom its prize. And if a small kingdom humbles itself before a great kingdom, it shall win over that great kingdom. Thus the one humbles itself in order to attain, the other attains because it is humble. If the great kingdom has no further desire than to bring men together and to nourish them, the small kingdom will have no further desire than to enter the service of the other. But in order that both may have their desire, the great one must learn humility.

Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.

When the hares have all been caught, the hunting dogs are cooked.

Use your own light and return to the source of light. This is called practicing eternity.