Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.

Supreme good is like water. Water greatly benefits all things, without conflict. It flows through places that people loathe. Thereby it is close to the Way.

Those who do not trust enough should not be trusted.

Although there are weapons for tens and hundreds of soldiers, they will not be used.

Although most people spend their entire lives following this biological impulse (i.e. the sex drive), it is only a tiny portion of our beings. . . . If we remain obsessed with seeds and eggs, we are married to the fertile reproductive valley of the Mysterious Mother but not to her immeasurable heart and all-knowing mind.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.