The grandest virtue seems deficient.
People are born soft and weak. They die hard and stiff.
Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful.
Heaven is eternal and Earth everlasting. They can be eternal and everlasting because they do not exist for themselves, And for this reason can exist forever.
Nurture the spontaneous peaceful life.
The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root from which it came. Returning to the root is stillness. Through stillness each fulfils its destiny.