If people are not afraid of dying, why threaten them with death?

Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

The best of all teachers is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him.

Human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless.

The man of knowledge acquires something new everyday, and the man of Tao lets go of something new every day.

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.

Although most people spend their entire lives following this biological impulse (i.e. the sex drive), it is only a tiny portion of our beings. . . . If we remain obsessed with seeds and eggs, we are married to the fertile reproductive valley of the Mysterious Mother but not to her immeasurable heart and all-knowing mind.