Can you comprehend everything in the four directions and still do nothing?

Allow your softer, more intuitive, and less dominating feminine qualities to rise to the fore, so that you're surrendering rather than dominating, receiving rather than broadcasting, loving rather than fighting.

The best people are like water, which benefits all things and does not compete with them. It stays in lowly places that others reject. This is why it is so similar to the Way.

Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

To know others is to have knowledge. To know yourself is to be enlightened.

Knowing others is to be clever. Knowing yourself is to be enlightened. Overcoming others requires force. Overcoming yourself requires strength.