The eye with which you see God is the same eye with which God sees you; one in seeing; one in knowing; one in loving.

The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.

We put thirty spokes to make a wheel: But it is on the hole in the center that the use of the cart hinges. We make a vessel from a lump of clay; But it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful. We make doors and windows for a room; But it is the empty spaces that make the room livable. Thus, while existence has advantages, It is the emptiness that makes it useful.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish, too much handling will spoil it.

The perfect square lacks corners.

When merit has been achieved, do not take it to yourself; for if you do not take it to yourself, it shall never be taken from you.

Heaven is eternal and Earth everlasting. They can be eternal and everlasting because they do not exist for themselves, And for this reason can exist forever.