In stillness the muddied water returns to clarity.

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

The value of teaching without words and accomplishing without action is understood by few in the world.

If a country is governed with tolerance, the people are comfortable and honest. If a country is governed with repression, the people are depressed and crafty. When the will to power is in charge, the higher the ideals, the lower the results. Try to make people happy, and you lay the groundwork for misery. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice. Thus the Master is content to serve as an example and not to impose her will. She is pointed, but doesn't pierce. Straightforward, but supple. Radiant, but easy on the eyes.

I have three treasures that I cherish. The first is compassion. The second is moderation. The third is not claiming to be first in the world.

See others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.

So the unwanting soul sees what's hidden, and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants.