Solve it before it happens. Order it before chaos emerges.

Abandon fancy theologies and imaginary ideas and do some ordinary daily work... {Engage in this work with} unswerving kindness and unending patience.

Instead of being afraid of death, we should try to awake to life; and the only death we should escape from is to forget the presence of God into us.

The small is easy to scatter.

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil. Therefore having and not having arise together. Difficult and easy complement each other. Long and short contrast each other. High and low rest upon each other. Voice and sound harmonize each other. Front and back follow one another.

The fish cannot leave the deep waters. The state's weaponry should not be displayed.

Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?