If you persist in trying to attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift), if you persist in making effort to obtain what effort cannot get, if you persist in reasoning about what cannot be understood, you will be destroyed by the very thing you seek. To know when to stop, to know when you can get no further by your own action, this is the right beginning!

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

If you wish to care for your body, first of all take care of material things, though even when you have all the things you want, the body can still be uncared for

In an archery contest, when the stakes are earthenware tiles a contestant shoots with skill. When the stakes are belt buckles he becomes hesitant, and if the stakes are pure gold he becomes nervous and confused. There is no difference as to his skil.

Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.

Who knows when the end is reached? Death may be the beginning of life. How do I know that love of life is not a delusion after all? How do I know that he who dreads to die is as a child who has lost the way and cannot find his way home? How do I know that the dead repent of having previously clung to life?

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.