“Gravity is the root of lightness;”

“Allow the heart to empty itself of all turmoil! Retrieve the utter tranquility of the mind from which you issued.Although all forms are dynamic,and we all grow and transform,each of us is compelled to return to our root. Our root is quietude.”

“When things (in the vegetable world) have displayed their luxuriant growth, we see each of them return to its root.”

“This returning to their root is what we call the state of stillness; and that stillness may be called a reporting that they have fulfilled their appointed end.”

“All things return (to their root and disappear), and do not know that it is it which presides over their doing so;—it may be named in the greatest things.”

“There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.”

“The path into the light seems dark, the path forward seems to go back, the direct path seems long.”