We may be floating on Tao, but there is nothing wrong with steering. If Tao is like a river, it is certainly good to know where the rocks are.

Once we make our decision, all things will come to us. Auspicious signs are not a superstition, but a confirmation. They are a response.

It is too facile to say that the way to follow Tao is to simply go along with the flow of life. Sometimes, like the carp, we must know when to go it alone.

It is said that if one chooses to pray to a rock with enough devotion, even that rock will come alive.

We may be floating on Tao, but there is nothing wrong with steering. If Tao is like a river, it is certainly good to know where the rocks are.

An ancient gnarled tree: Too fibrous for a logger's saw, Too twisted to fit a carpenter's square, Outlasts the whole forest.

You may be capable of great things, But life consists of small things.