Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.
Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone.
Stillness is easy to maintain.
A man is born gentle and weak. At death he is hard and stiff.
Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.
He who is contented is rich.