The light of the Way seems dim.

Thorn bushes grow where armies have camped.

Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.

The feminine values are the fountain of bliss. Know the masculine, Keep to the feminine.

If you close your mind in judgements and traffic with desires, your heart will be troubled. If you keep your mind from judging and aren't led by the senses, your heart will find peace.

When everyone in the world sees beauty, then ugly exists.

Those who would take over the earth and shape it to their will, never, I notice succeed.