The true man of the past waited upon Heaven when dealing with people and did not wait upon people when dealing with Heaven.

The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.

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!

To have attained to the human form is a source of joy... What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.

There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning ... There is something. There is nothing.

A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.

Compare birth with death, compare death with life; compare what is possible with what is not possible and compare what is not possible with what is possible; because there is, there is not, and because there is not, there is.