We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable. We work with being, but non-being is what we use.

Knowledge studies others, wisdom is self known.

The world is won by those who let it go.

The Way is hidden and nameless. Still only the Way nourishes and completes.

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

Only I am clumsy, like drifting on the waves of the sea, without direction.

He who treasures his body as much as the world can care for the world.