Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world.

When the ancient Masters said, "If you want to be given everything, give everything up," they weren't using empty phrases. Only in being lived by the Tao can you be truly yourself.

If Heaven and Earth are unable to persist, how could man?

To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.

If a great country yields to a small country, it will conquer the small country. If a small country yields to a great country, it will be conquered by the great country.

The best way to carve is not to split.

The purest white seems stained.