Use your light, but dim your brightness.

Carrying body and soul and embracing the one, Can you avoid separation?

Those who know are not learned. Those who are learned do not know.

My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Those who praise themselves do not prevail.

The universe is deathless; Is deathless because, having no finite self, it stays infinite. A sound man by not advancing himself stays the further ahead of himself, By not confining himself to himself sustains himself outside himself: By never being an end in himself he endlessly becomes himself.