The Way of the Sage is to act but not to compete.

Attending fully and becoming supple, Can you be as a newborn babe?

The real is empty and the empty real

Kindness in words creates confidence.

Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely.

. . . 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.

Those who stand on their toes are not steady.