One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak overcomes the strong, that the hard gives way to the gentle - this everyone knows. Yet no one asks accordingly.
So the unwanting soul sees what's hidden, and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants.
The longer you travel, the less you know.
The great Way is very straight, but people prefer to deviate.
Good Government is not intrusive the people are hardly aware of it; the next best is felt yet loved; then comes that which is known and feared; the worst government is hated.