How do I know about the world? By what is within me.

What is and what is not create each other.

To delight in conquest is to delight in slaughter.

Abandon wisdom, discard knowledge, and people will benefit a hundredfold.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.

From now back to antiquity, its (Tao's) name has not been lost. Thereby, see the origin of all.

Every being in the universe is an expression of the Tao. It springs into existence, unconscious, perfect, free, takes on a physical body, lets circumstances complete it. That is why every being spontaneously honors the Tao. The Tao gives birth to all beings, nourishes them, maintains them, cares for them, comforts them, protects them, takes them back to itself, creating without possessing, acting without expecting, guiding without interfering. That is why love of the Tao is in the very nature of things.