Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.

Do you think that you can clear your mind by sitting constantly in silent meditation? This makes your mind narrow, not clear. Integral awareness is fluid and adaptable, present in all places and at all times. That is true meditation. ... The Tao is clear and simple, and it doesn't avoid the world.

With that gentleness I can be bold; with that economy I can be liberal; shrinking from taking precedence of others, I can become a vessel of the highest honour.

He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him, and protect him with love.

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

A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.

All things flourish, and each returns to its source.