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.

When people see some things as good, other things become bad.

Don't imagine that you'll discover {the truth} by accumulating more knowledge. Knowledge creates doubt, and doubt makes you ravenous for more knowledge. You can't get full eating this way.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Deal with the small before it becomes large.

Abandon wisdom, discard knowledge, and people will benefit a hundredfold.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.