Is not the action of nature like the stretching of a bow? The high, it pulls down; the low, it lifts up; It takes from what is in excess In order to make good of what is deficient. Who can take what they have in excess and offer it to others?

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.

Have patience. Wait until the mud settles and the water is clear. Remain unmoving until right action arises by itself.

Water benefits the ten thousand things and does not oppose them.

Of all things, none does not revere the Way and honor virtue. Reverence of the Way and honoring virtue were not demanded of them, but it is in their nature.

Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short and long, life and death? Can you let go of all these dualities and embrace the Tao without skepticism or panic? If so, you can reach the heart of the Integral Oneness.

A whale out of water is over-run by ants.