Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way

Brim-fill the bowl, it’ll spill over. Keep sharpening the blade, you’ll soon blunt it. Nobody can protect a house full of gold and jade. Wealth, status, pride, are their own ruin. To do good, work well, and lie low is the way of the blessing.

Not looking at the desirable keeps the mind quiet.

To bear and not to own; to act and not lay claim; to do the work and let it go: for just letting it go is what makes it stay.

So the unwanting soul sees what’s hidden, and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants.

And in poetry, beauty is no ornament; it is the meaning. It is the truth.

So the unwanting soul sees what’s hidden, and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants.

To bear and not to own; to act and not lay claim; to do the work and let it go: for just letting it go is what makes it stay.

degradation of the great way come benevolence

Everybody on earth knowing that beauty is beautiful makes ugliness. Everybody knowing that goodness is good makes wickedness. For being and nonbeing arise together; hard and easy complete each other; long and short shape each other; high and low depend on each other; note and voice make the music together; before and after follow each other. That’s

Can you love people and run things, and do so by not doing?