Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.

Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love.

Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.

Find a teacher who is an integral being, a beacon who extends his light and virtue with equal ease to those who appreciate him and those who don't. Shape yourself in his mold, bathe in his nourishing radiance, and reflect it out to the rest of the world.

The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people.

Throw away holiness and wisdom, and people will be a hundred times happier. Throw away morality and justice, and people will do the right thing. Throw away industry and profit, and there won't be any thieves. If these three aren't enough, just stay at the center of the circle and let all things take their course.

If Heaven were not clear it might rend. If Earth were not firm it might crumble.