Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven.
Heaven's Way does not contend, yet it certainly triumphs. It does not speak, yet it certainly answers. It does not summon, yet things come by themselves. It seems to be at rest, yet it certainly has a plan.
Keep behind, and you shall be put in front; keep out, and you shall be kept in.
Things are not worth attending to, yet they have to be attended to.
The river and the sea can be kings of a hundred valleys, because they lie below them.
The Tao principle is what happens of itself.