The first practice is the practice of undiscriminating virtue: take care of those who are deserving; also, and equally, take care of those who are not. When you extend your virtue in all directions without discriminating, you feet are firmly planted on the path that returns to the Tao.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

In lightness the root is lost. In haste the ruler is lost.

If you tell me, I will listen. If you show me, I will see. If you let me experience, I will learn!

The further one goes, the less (he realizes he) one knows.

The wise man does not lay up treasure. The more he expends on others, the more he gains for himself. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

Being is born of not being.