Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.

We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures.

...the ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.

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

Silence, and non action are the root of all things.

Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.

Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.