Although most people spend their entire lives following this biological impulse (i.e. the sex drive), it is only a tiny portion of our beings. . . . If we remain obsessed with seeds and eggs, we are married to the fertile reproductive valley of the Mysterious Mother but not to her immeasurable heart and all-knowing mind.

Tao loves and nourishes all things, but does not dominate it over them.

Perfect kindness acts without thinking of kindness.

He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant.

Clay is moulded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing. . . . Thus, taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not.

Only he who does not seek to be ahead of others is capable of living in harmony with everyone.

When men lack a sense of awe, there will be disaster.