The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

Bend and you will be straight.

In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.

When the Way governs the world, the proud stallions drag dung carriages. When the Way is lost to the world, war horses are bred outside the city.

Why did the ancients praise the Way? Did they not say it was because you find what you seek and are saved from your wrongdoings?

The skillful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels.