We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.

Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored.

The Master keeps her mind always at one with the Tao; that is what gives her her radiance. The Tao is ungraspable. How can her mind be at one with it? Because she doesn't cling to ideas. The Tao is dark and unfathomable. How can it make her radiant? Because she lets it. Since before time and space were, the Tao is. It is beyond is and is not. How do I know this is true? I look inside myself and see.

The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.

I am good to people who are good. I am also good to people who are not good. Because Virtue is goodness.

In harmony with the Tao, the sky is clear and spacious, the earth is solid and full, all creature flourish together, content with the way they are, endlessly repeating themselves, endlessly renewed. When man interferes with the Tao, the sky becomes filthy, the earth becomes depleted, the equilibrium crumbles, creatures become extinct. The Master views the parts with compassion, because he understands the whole. His constant practice is humility. He doesn't glitter like a jewel but lets himself be shaped by the Tao, as rugged and common as stone.

Moderation means prevention. Prevention means achieving much virtue.