The True Person benefits yet expects no reward, does the work and moves on. There is no desire to be considered better than others.

When superior people hear of the Way, they carry it out with diligence. When middling people hear of the Way, it sometimes seems to be there, sometimes not. When lesser people hear of the Way, they ridicule it greatly. If they didn't laugh at it, it wouldn't be the Way.

Yielding, like ice about to melt.

When you find the way/ others will find you./ Passing by on the road/ they will be drawn to your door./ The way that cannot be heard/ will be echoed in your voice./ The way that cannot be seen/ will be reflected in your eyes.

When people see some things as good, other things become bad.

The leader's main job is to make themselves obsolete.

If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.