When the Way governs the world, the proud stallions drag dung carriages. When the Way is lost to the world, war horses are bred outside the city.

Man is ruled by Earth. Earth is ruled by Heaven. Heaven is ruled by the Way. The Way is ruled by itself.

Praise and disgrace cause fear.

Without looking through the window, you can see Heaven's Way.

Since before time and space were, the Tao is. It is beyond is and is not.

The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below them. That is why they are able to reign over all the mountain streams.

First, we must do our own personal work, then we tend the necessary work of our family, then our community, then the world.