When his (the good ruler's) task is accomplished and his work done, The people all say, "It happened to us naturally.

Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish - don't overdo it.

Instead of being afraid of death, we should try to awake to life; and the only death we should escape from is to forget the presence of God into us.

Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?

When you accurately perceive the fluidity of things, you can also begin to perceive the constancy behind them: the creative, transformative, boundless, immutable Tao.

There is no illusion great than fear.

Behave simply and hold on to purity.