Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.

The Portal of God is nonexistence. All things sprang from nonexistence. Existence could not make existence existence. It must have proceeded from nonexistence, and nonexistence and nothing are one. Herein is the abiding place of the sage.

To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

The mind remains undetermined in the great Void. Here the highest knowledge is unbounded. That which gives things their thusness cannot be delimited by things. So when we speak of 'limits', we remain confined to limited things. The limit of the unlimited is called 'fullness.' The limitlessness of the limited is called 'emptiness.' Tao is the source of both. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness

When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.

The sound of water says what I think.