What is and what is not create each other.

In ancient times, people said that imperfect moves to becoming perfect. Are these words vain? No! Truly, by gaining Unity you come to Perfection!

Those who seek knowledge, collect something every day. Those who seek the Way, let go of something every day.

Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.

Those who defeat others are strong, those who defeat themselves are mighty.

Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.

There is a big misunderstanding about the idea of naturalness. Most people who come to us believing in some freedom or naturalness, but their understanding is what we call [heretical naturalness] ... a kind of "let-alone policy" or sloppiness... For a plant or stone to be natural is no problem. But for us there is some problem, indeed a big problem. To be natural is something we must work on.