Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored.

Stop leaving and you will arrive, Stop searching and you will see, Stop running away and you will be found.

From What-is all the world of things was born But What-is sprang in turn from What-is-not.

Requite injury with kindness.

We put thirty spokes to make a wheel: But it is on the hole in the center that the use of the cart hinges. We make a vessel from a lump of clay; But it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful. We make doors and windows for a room; But it is the empty spaces that make the room livable. Thus, while existence has advantages, It is the emptiness that makes it useful.

The best soldiers are not warlike; the best fighters do not lose their temper. The greatest conquerors are those who overcome their enemies without strife. The greatest directors of men are those who yield place to others. This is called the Virtue of not striving, the capacity for directing mankind; this is being the compeer of Heaven. It was the highest goal of the ancients.

When there is no desire, all things are at peace