Who is there who can make muddy waters clear? But if allowed to remain still, it will gradually clear itself.

Stillness overcomes heat.

If people are not afraid of dying, why threaten them with death?

Those who are self-righteous are not prominent.

The real is empty and the empty real

Does one scent appeal more than another? Do you prefer this flavor, or that feeling? Is your practice sacred and your work profane? Then your mind is separated: from itself, from oneness, from the Tao.

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil. Therefore having and not having arise together. Difficult and easy complement each other. Long and short contrast each other. High and low rest upon each other. Voice and sound harmonize each other. Front and back follow one another.