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.

The Tao of the sage is work without effort.

If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.

If you want to be given everything, give everything up.

To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.

Excellent soldiers are not furious.

The world is won by those who let it go.