The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be. The more laws are promulgated, the more thieves and bandits there will be.

Fail to honor people, they fail to honor you.

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Life and death are one thread.

In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.

Can you be still and look inside?If so, then you know the truth is always available, and always responsive.