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 one who is conscious (in Tao) can't speak. The one who can speak is not conscious (centered in Tao)

Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it.

In stillness the muddied water returns to clarity.

By letting go, it all gets done.

The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion.

The longer you travel, the less you know.