Great acts are made up of small deeds.

When the Way governs the world, the proud stallions drag dung carriages. When the Way is lost to the world, war horses are bred outside the city.

The mystical techniques for achieving immortality are revealed only to those who have dissolved all ties to the gross worldly realm of duality, conflict, and dogma. As long as your shallow worldly ambitions exist, the door will not open.

Wear down to be renewed.

Those who boast are not respected.

Returning to the source is serenity.

For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.