The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.
Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men's minds are also injured by them.
The way is One and only One. The way is close at hand, but men seek it afar.