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 ultimate happiness is doing nothing.

The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.

There is danger for the eye in seeing too clearly, danger for the ear in hearing too sharply and danger to the heart from caring too greatly.

As regards the quietude of the sage, he is not quiet because quietness is said to be good. He is quiet because the multitude of things cannot disturb his quietude. When water is still, one's beard and eyelashes are reflected in it. A skilled carpenter uses it in a level to obtain a measurement. If still water is so clear, how much more are the mental faculties! The mind of the sage is the mirror of heaven and earth in which all things are reflected.

Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.

There are no greater adversaries than yin and yang, because nothing in Heaven or on Earth escapes them. But it is not yin and yang that do this, it is your heart that makes it so.