Force is followed by loss of strength. This is not the way of the Tao. That which goes against the Tao comes to an early end.

Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world.

By compassion one can be brave.

A man is born gentle and weak. At death, he is hard and stiff. Green plants are tender and filled with sap. At death, they are withered and dry. Therefore, the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death, and the gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.

Because every portion of the body, mind, and spirit yearns for the integration of yin and yang, angelic intercourse is led by the spirit rather than the sexual organs. . . . Where ordinary intercourse unites sex organs with sex organs, angelic cultivation unites spirit with spirit, mind with mind, and every cell of one body with every cell of the other body.

Heavy is the root of light.

Knowledge of the eternal is all-embracing. To be all-embracing leads to righteousness, which is majestic.