My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice; but there is no one in the world who is able to understand and practice them.

The Great Tao flows everywhere, to the left and to the right, all things depend on it to exist, and it does not abandon them. To its accomplishments it lays no claims. It loves and nourished all things, but does not lord it over them.

If one desires to receive one must first give. This is called profound understanding.

Simply see that you are at the center of the universe, and accept all things and beings as parts of your infinite body. When you perceive that an act done to another is done to yourself, you have understood the great truth.

To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health.

Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal.

A good runner leaves no footprints.