Since before time and space were, the Tao is. It is beyond is and is not.

To know you have enough is to be rich.

The wise man knows he doesn't know.

The purest white seems stained.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Although most people spend their entire lives following this biological impulse (i.e. the sex drive), it is only a tiny portion of our beings. . . . If we remain obsessed with seeds and eggs, we are married to the fertile reproductive valley of the Mysterious Mother but not to her immeasurable heart and all-knowing mind.

Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal.