Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.
The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views-then the world will be governed.
The eyes envy the mind.
To have a human form is a joyful thing.
Thus, those who say they would have right without its correlate, wrong; or good government without its correlate, misrule, do not apprehend the great principles of the universe, nor the nature of all creation.
All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
Life is finite, while knowledge is infinite.
Each one’s destiny cannot be altered.
There may be difficulty at the moment, but I will not lose the Virtue that I possess. It is when the ice and snow are on them that we see the strength of the cypress and the pine. I am grateful for this trouble around me, because it gives me an opportunity to realize how fortunate I am.
Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.
All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so that I can have a word with him?
Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!
Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.
When I talk about having good hearing, I don’t mean just listening, but listening to yourself. When I talk about good eyesight, I don’t mean just looking, but looking at yourself.
Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
The right way to go easy is to forget the right way...