Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be, it comes closest to the way.

Learn from the people. Plan with the people. Begin with what they have. Build on what they know.

Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch.

The most complete seems lacking. Yet in use it is not exhausted.

If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.

Knowing that we don't know it's humility; thinking that we know what we don't know, is sickness.

. . . These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife, always chipping away at the Tao, trying to render it graspable and manageable. But that which is beyond form is ungraspable, and that which is beyond knowing is unmanageable. There is, however, this consolation: She who lets go of the knife will find the Tao at her fingertips.