A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered.

Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out.

Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life, but rigidity and hardness accompany death.

If people do not revere the Law of Nature It will adversely affect them. If they accept It with knowledge and reverence, It will accommodate them with balance and harmony.

As for the "proper way:" it is the beginning of disorder.

When merit has been achieved, do not take it to yourself; for if you do not take it to yourself, it shall never be taken from you.

Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.