The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not malign, straight but not severe, bright but not dazzling.

He who knows he has enough is rich. Perseverance is a sign of will power. He who stays where he is endures. To die but not to perish is to be eternally present.

Is it not through her selflessness that she is able to perfect herself?

When you are at one with loss, the loss is experienced willingly.

If the people must be ever fearful of death, then there will always be an executioner.

Our enemies are not demons, but human beings like ourselves.

The master observes the world but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. He prefers what is within to what is without.

Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.

The hard and mighty lie beneath the ground While the tender and weak dance on the breeze above.

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.

Just remain in the center; watching. And then forget that you are there.

He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him, and protect him with love.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don’t see the self as self, what do we have to fear?

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.