Your name or your body, what is dearer? Your body or your wealth, what is worthier?

Those who of old were good practicers of Tao did not use it to make people bright, but rather used it to make them simple.

Attain utmost emptiness. Abide in steadfast stillness.

He who knows he has enough is rich.

Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short and long, life and death? Can you let go of all these dualities and embrace the Tao without skepticism or panic? If so, you can reach the heart of the Integral Oneness.

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

Simply see that you are at the center of the universe, and accept all things and beings as parts of your infinite body. When you perceive that an act done to another is done to yourself, you have understood the great truth.