Warriors say: I dare not be like the host, but would rather be like the guest. I dare not advance an inch, but would rather retreat a foot.

To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.

When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

By moderation one can be generous.

The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.

The way to use life is to do nothing through acting, The way to use life is to do everything through being.

Tao is beyond words and beyond understanding. Words may be used to speak of it, but they cannot contain it. Tao existed before words and names, before heaven and earth, before the ten thousand things. It is the unlimited father and mother of all limited things. Therefore, to see beyond boundaries to the subtle heart of things, dispense with names, with concepts, with expectations and ambitions and differences. Tao and its many manifestations arise from the same source: subtle wonder within mysterious darkness. This is the beginning of all understanding.