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.

If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession.

The Way is ever without action, yet nothing is left undone.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

When people are unsettled, loyal ministers arise.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

By moderation one can be generous.