The Eternal generates the One. The One generates the Two. The Two generates the Three. The Three generates all things.

Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere. Those who are skilled (in the Tao) do not dispute (about it); the disputatious are not skilled in it. Those who know (the Tao) are not extensively learned; the extensively learned do not know it.

The first practice is the practice of undiscriminating virtue: take care of those who are deserving; also, and equally, take care of those who are not. When you extend your virtue in all directions without discriminating, you feet are firmly planted on the path that returns to the Tao.

One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

If you want to be given everything, give everything up.

He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.