If you want to know me, look inside your heart.
When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
If I have just an ounce of sense, I follow the great Way, and fear only to stray from it.
Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?
Whatever is flexible and living will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die.