As restrictions and prohibitions are multiplied the people grow poorer and poorer. When they are subjected to overmuch government, the land is thrown into confusion.

Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know. Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity. Be like the Tao. It can't be approached or withdrawn from, benefited or harmed, honored or brought into disgrace. It gives itself up continually. That is why it endures.

Conduct your triumph as a funeral.

. . . learn to value what is important today in the subtle realm rather than what appears desirable tomorrow in the worldly realm.

Yet mystery and reality emerge from the same source.

Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here.

I do not interfere, and people become rich by themselves.