A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step and if that step is the right step, it becomes the last step.

Why did the ancients praise the Way? Did they not say it was because you find what you seek and are saved from your wrongdoings?

The Way is ever nameless.

To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health.

The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.

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.

Not valuing wealth prevents theft.