Tao Te Ching

Can you keep the unquiet physical-soul from straying, Hold fast to the Unity, and never quit it? Can you, when […]

We put thirty spokes together and call it a wheel; But it is on the space where there is nothing

The fives colours confuse the eye, The fives sounds dull the ear, The five tastes spoil the palate. Excess of

Favour and disgrace goad as it were to madness; High rank hurts keenly as our bodies hurt.” What does it

Because the eye gazes but can catch no glimpse of it, It is called elusive. Because the ear listens but

Of old those that were the best officers of Court Had inner natures subtle, abstruse, mysterious, penetrating, Too deep to

Push far enough towards the Void, Hold fast enough to Quietness, And of the ten thousand things none but can

Of the highest the people merely know that such a one exists; The next they draw near to and praise.

It was when the Great Way declined That human kindness and morality arose; It was when intelligence and knowledge appeared