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

A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.

We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening

To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.

Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.

When you're dreaming, you don't know it's a dream. You might even interpret a dream in your dream - and then wake up and realize it was all a dream. Perhaps a great awakening will reveal this to be a dream as well.

To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone with the spiritual and the intelligent - herein lie the techniques of Tao of the ancients.