Attending fully and becoming supple, Can you be as a newborn babe?

Take care of what is difficult while it is still easy, and deal with what will become big while it is yet small.

He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.

When family ties are disturbed, devoted children arise.

The Tao gives birth to One. One gives birth to Two. Two gives birth to Three. Three gives birth to all things. All things have their backs to the female and stand facing the male. When male and female combine, all things achieve harmony. Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.

Mold clay into a bowl. The empty space makes it useful.

. . . These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife, always chipping away at the Tao, trying to render it graspable and manageable. But that which is beyond form is ungraspable, and that which is beyond knowing is unmanageable. There is, however, this consolation: She who lets go of the knife will find the Tao at her fingertips.