Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects her own mistakes. She does what she needs to do and demands nothing of others.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.

The sage embraces the one, and is an example to the world.

Those who take long steps cannot keep the pace.

Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging. Knowing constancy is insight.

Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.