“There are few in the world who attain to the teaching without words, and the advantage arising from non-action.”

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

“With few there is attainment. With much there is confusion.”

“The gentlest thing in the worldovercomes the hardest thing in the world.That which has no substanceenters where there is no space.This shows the value of non-action.Teaching without words,performing without actions:that is the Master's way.”

“All difficult things in the world are sure to arise from a previous state in which they were easy, and all great things from one in which they were small.”

“When the world knows beauty as beauty, ugliness arises.”

“When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, there arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, there arises the recognition of evil.”