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

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

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

The fish trap exists because of the fish: once you have gotten the meanings, you can forget the words.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

When there is no more separation between 'this' and 'that,' it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.