The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. The unnamable is the eternally real. Naming is the origin of all particular things. Free from desire, you realize the mystery. Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations. Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source. This source is called darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

The softest of stuff in the world, penetrates quickly the hardest, insubstantial, it enters where there is no room.

The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people.

Human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless.

If good happens, good; if bad happens, good.

Geese are white, crows are black. No argument will change this.

The wise does not think that only he is right -thus he knows the truth.