Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.

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.

Each one's destiny cannot be altered.

The mind remains undetermined in the great Void. Here the highest knowledge is unbounded. That which gives things their thusness cannot be delimited by things. So when we speak of 'limits', we remain confined to limited things. The limit of the unlimited is called 'fullness.' The limitlessness of the limited is called 'emptiness.' Tao is the source of both. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.

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

When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.