Why not simply honor your parents, love your children, help your brothers and sisters, be faithful to your friends, care for your mate with devotion, complete your work cooperatively and joyfully, assume responsibility for problems, practice virtue without first demanding it of others, understand the highest truths yet retain an ordinary manner? That would be true clarity, true simplicity, true mastery.

To retreat after a work well done is Heaven's Way.

Going forward seems like retreat.

Without law or compulsion, men would dwell in harmony.

By following this simple path, you become extraordinary, unfathomable, a being of profound cosmic subtlety. You outlive time and space by realizing the subtle truth of the universe.

The truly great man dwells on what is real and not what is on the surface.

When the worst student hears about the Way, he laughs out loud. If he did not laugh, it would be unworthy of being the Way.