Heaven is like an egg, and the earth is like the yolk of the egg.

Heaven does nothing: its non-doing is its serenity. Earth does nothing: its non-doing is its rest. From the union of these two non-doings All actions proceed. All things are made. How vast, how invisible This coming-to-be! All things come from nowhere! How vast, how invisible No way to explain it! All beings in their perfection Are born of non-doing. Hence it is said: Heaven and earth do nothing Yet there is nothing they do not do. Where is the man who can attain To this non-doing?

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

Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.

When the heart is right, "for" and "against" are forgotten.

The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.

A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.