If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself, if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.

If you worry more for others' beliefs, then you will be their slave.

Those who have hardened, have a covenant with Death. Those who remain gentle are conjoined with Life.

If you go searching for the Great Creator, you will come back empty-handed. The source of the universe is ultimately unknowable, a great invisible river flowing forever through a vast and fertile valley. Silent and uncreated, it creates all things.

Wear down to be renewed.

A follower of the Way (Tao) loses something each day. Loss after loss until arriving at Non Action (Wu Wei).