Conduct your triumph as a funeral.

[The Master] doesn't glitter like a jewel... [but is] as rugged and common as a stone.

When you extend your goodwill in every direction, regardless of circumstances, you begin to see that we are all one.

There is nothing softer and weaker than water, and yet there is nothing better for attacking hard and strong things.

The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. The unnamable is the eternally real. Naming is the origin of all particular things. Free from desire, you realize the mystery. Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations. Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source. This source is called darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Your name or your body, what is dearer? Your body or your wealth, what is worthier?

Spokes unite in the hub of a wheel.