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.

A great nation is like a great man:When he makes a mistake, he realizes it.Having realized it, he admits it.Having admitted it, he corrects it.He considers those who point out his faultsas his most benevolent teachers.He thinks of his enemyas the shadow that he himself casts.

If you want to know me, look inside your heart.

Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.

Deal with it before it happens. Set things in order before there is confusion.

It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in silence in which at last we begin to hear what we are meant to be.

Going forward seems like retreat.