If princes and kings were not exalted they might be overthrown.

To bear and not to own; to act and not lay claim; to do the work and let it go: for just letting it go is what makes it stay.

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle.

Without opening your door, you can open your heart to the world. Without looking out your window, you can see the essence of the Tao. The more you know, the less you understand. The Master arrives without leaving, sees the light without looking, achieves without doing a thing.

Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here.

The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery.

The weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it.