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

Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.

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

The true man of the past waited upon Heaven when dealing with people and did not wait upon people when dealing with Heaven.

There are no greater adversaries than yin and yang, because nothing in Heaven or on Earth escapes them. But it is not yin and yang that do this, it is your heart that makes it so.

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

The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.