The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious. Bound, rigid, and trapped, you cannot experience liberation.

The further one goes, the less (he realizes he) one knows.

He who is great must make humility his base. He who is high must make lowliness his foundation. Thus, princes and kings in speaking of themselves use the terms "lonely," "friendless," "of small account." Is not this making humility their base?

I am at peace, and people become fair by themselves.

The most eloquent seems to stutter.

What has not yet emerged is easy to prevent.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.