A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly, without any interference of the conscious will. This is a paradigm for non-action: the purest and most effective form of action. The game plays the game; the poem writes the poem; we can't tell the dancer from the dance. It happens when we trust the intelligence of the universe in the same way that an athlete or a dancer trusts the superior intelligence of the body.

The separate parts make no carriage.

Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.

Racing through the field and hunting make the mind wild.

Heavy is the root of light.

He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him, and protect him with love.

When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.