In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.

Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.

Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are.

The Great Tao flows everywhere, to the left and to the right, all things depend on it to exist, and it does not abandon them. To its accomplishments it lays no claims. It loves and nourished all things, but does not lord it over them.

Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend.

Superior leaders get things done with very little motion. They impart instruction not through many words, but through a few deeds. They keep informed about everything but interfere hardly at all. They are catalysts, and though things would not get done as well if they were not there, when they succeed they take no credit. And, because they take no credit, credit never leaves them.

The ego is entranced by ... names and ideas... However names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore it is wise to ignore them. Those who live inside their egos are continually bewildered.