Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

The sage knows without traveling, perceives without looking, completes without acting.

The world is a sacred vessel. It should not be meddled with. It should not be owned. If you try to meddle with it you will ruin it. If you try to own it you will lose it

Seeing the small is called clarity.

For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

The softest in the world surpasses the hardest in the world.

The separate parts make no carriage.