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.

A good calculator does not need artificial aids.

The eye with which you see God is the same eye with which God sees you; one in seeing; one in knowing; one in loving.

The mature person perceives the fruitlessness of rigid, external methodologies.

Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation?

The most difficult in the world must be easy in its beginning.

The sturdiest virtue seems fragile.