Can you be still and look inside?If so, then you know the truth is always available, and always responsive.

He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.

The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below them. That is why they are able to reign over all the mountain streams.

New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.

Fame of self: Which matters more? Self or wealth: Which is more precious? Gain or loss: Which is more painful?

The real art of governing consists, so far as possible, in doing nothing.

He who is contented is rich.