Nature's way is simple and easy, but men prefer the intricate and artificial.
Things are not worth attending to, yet they have to be attended to.
I do not know its name. I call it the Way. For the lack of better words I call it great.
Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely.
The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry.
That which offers no resistance can enter where there is no space.