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

All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.

The non-action of the wise man is not inaction. It is not studied. It is not shaken by anything. The sage is quiet because he is not moved, not because he wills to be quiet. . . . Joy does all things without concern. For emptiness, stillness, tranquillity, tastelessness, silence, and non-action are the root of all things.

Tao is obscured when men understand only one pair of opposites, or concentrate only on a partial aspect of being. Then clear expression also becomes muddled by mere wordplay, affirming this one aspect and denying all the rest. The pivot of Tao passes through the center where all affirmations and denials converge. He who grasps the pivot is at the still-point from which all movements and oppositions can be seen in their right relationship... Abandoning all thought of imposing a limit or taking sides, he rests in direct intuition.

The tao is made because we walk it,things become what they are called.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water - they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.