Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion.
Does one scent appeal more than another? Do you prefer this flavor, or that feeling? Is your practice sacred and your work profane? Then your mind is separated: from itself, from oneness, from the Tao.
Tao loves and nourishes all things, but does not dominate it over them.
What is firmly rooted cannot be pulled out
The sage governs by emptying senses and filling bellies.
The highest virtue does nothing. Yet, nothing needs to be done. The lowest virtue does everything. Yet, much remains to be done.