Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution.

When much virtue is achieved, nothing is not overcome.

The longer you travel, the less you know.

Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.

The world's big things only can be done by paying attention to their humble beginnings.

He who prides himself upon wealth and honor hastens his own downfall.

When one gives whatever one can without restraint, the barriers of individuality break down. It no longer becomes possible to tell whether it is the student offering himself to the teacher, or the teacher offering herself to the student. One sees only two immaculate beings, reflecting one another like a pair of brilliant mirrors.