When a country is in harmony with the Tao, the factories make trucks and tractors. When a country goes counter to the Tao, warheads are stockpiled outside the cities. There is no greater illusion than fear, no greater wrong than preparing to defend yourself, no greater misfortune than having an enemy. Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.

I do not act, and people become reformed by themselves.

Tao in the world is like a river flowing home to the sea.

I confess that there is nothing to teach: no religion, no science, no writings which will lead your mind back to Spirit. Today I speak this way, tomorrow that, but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind.

There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.

Open yourself to the truth, then trust in your natural responses, and everything will fall into place.

The truly great man dwells on what is real and not what is on the surface.