Tao is obscured when men understand only one pair of opposites, or concentrate only on a partial aspect of being. Then clear expression also becomes muddled by mere wordplay, affirming this one aspect and denying all the rest. The pivot of Tao passes through the center where all affirmations and denials converge. He who grasps the pivot is at the still-point from which all movements and oppositions can be seen in their right relationship... Abandoning all thought of imposing a limit or taking sides, he rests in direct intuition.

Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.

Now, when ordinary people attempt to find happiness, I am not sure whether the happiness is really happiness or not. I study what ordinary people do to find happiness, what they struggle for, rushing about apparently unable to stop.

Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?

...the ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.

The creature born is the creature dying.

Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone