Knowing others is to be clever. Knowing yourself is to be enlightened. Overcoming others requires force. Overcoming yourself requires strength.

The real is empty and the empty real

Nature is not human hearted.

Knowing that we don't know it's humility; thinking that we know what we don't know, is sickness.

Can you gather your vital breath and yet be tender like a newborn baby?

If you would take, you must first give.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.