Perfect kindness acts without thinking of kindness.

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

To delight in conquest is to delight in slaughter.

Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on a counterfeit nature.

To rule by knowledge ravages the country.

Ever desireless, one can see the mystery. Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations. These two spring from the same source but differ in name; this appears as darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gate to all mystery.

Do not strive for the shine of jade, but clatter like stone.