The real is empty and the empty real
Leadership is your ability to hide your panic from others.
Free from desire, you realize the mystery, caught in the desire, you see only the manifestations.
How do I know about the world? By what is within me.
When superior people hear of the Way, they carry it out with diligence. When middling people hear of the Way, it sometimes seems to be there, sometimes not. When lesser people hear of the Way, they ridicule it greatly. If they didn't laugh at it, it wouldn't be the Way.
The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root from which it came. Returning to the root is stillness. Through stillness each fulfils its destiny.