Don't imagine that you'll discover {the truth} by accumulating more knowledge. Knowledge creates doubt, and doubt makes you ravenous for more knowledge. You can't get full eating this way.

Observe how endings become beginnings.

How do I know about the world? By what is within me.

From What-is all the world of things was born But What-is sprang in turn from What-is-not.

Therefore the Sage, wishing to be above the people, must by his words put himself below them; wishing to be before the people, he must put himself behind them. In this way, though he has his place above them, the people do not feel his weight; though he has his place before them, they do not feel it as an injury. Therefore all mankind delight to exalt him, and weary of him not.

Pounding an edge to sharpness will not make it last.

Nature does not have to insist.