The Tao of Power by R.L.Wing

Tao

…with expectation, one will always perceive the boundary
Act without expectation
Do not focus on desires, and people’s minds will not be confused.
The Tao is empty and yet useful
Evolved individuals are impartial; They regard all people as straw dogs
Everlasting, endless, it appears to exist.
Evolved individuals put themselves last and yet they are first…
The value in water benefits all things and yet it does not contend…
Holding to fullness is not as good as stopping in time.
Produce but do not possess. Act without expectation.
…take advantage of what is there, by making use of what is not.
Regard the center and not the eye. Hence one discard’s one and receives the other.
Those who love the world as self will be entrusted with the world.
Control the current reality.
Who can harmonize with muddy water, and gradually arrive at clarity?
What is tolerant becomes impartial; What is impartial becomes powerful…
Those who lack belief will not be believed.
When the family has no harmony, piety and devotion appear.
Perceive purity; Embrace simplicity; Reduce self-interest; Limit desires.
How much difference is there between agreement and servility?
The Tao acts through Natural Law; So formless, so intangible.
To become whole, Turn within.
Those who lack belief will not in turn be believed.
Those who are on tiptoe cannot stand firm.
Humans are modeled on the earth.
Stillness is the master of agitation.
A good person is the teacher of an inferior person; and an inferior person is the resoure of a good person.
When simplicity is broken up, it is made into instruments.
Evolved individuals avoid extremes, avoid extravagance, avoid excess.
Where armies are positioned, thorny brambles are produced.
Even when victorious, let there be no joy, for such joy leads to contentment with slaughter.
To know when to stop is to be free of danger.
Those who master themselves have strength.
…one does not seek greatness, and in that way the great is achieved.
We use the Tao and it is without end.
Fish should not be taken from deep waters…
…without desire there is harmony.

38. One who has propriety has the veneer of truth and yet is the leader of confusion.
39. Mind without inspiration would probably sleep.
40. …existence was produced from nonexistence.
41. The greatest talents are slowly mastered.
42. Those who are violent do not die naturally.
43. The most yielding parts of the world overtake the most rigid parts of the world.
44. Know what is enough; be without disgrace. Know when to stop; be without danger.
45. Clarity and stillness bring order to the world.
46. There is no greater fault than desiring to acquire.
47. One may travel very far, and know very little.
48. Through nonaction nothing is left undone.
49. To those who are good, I am good; To those who are not good, I am also good.
50. As life goes out, death comes in.
51. Produce but do not possess. Act without expectation.
52. To perceive the small is called insight. To remain yielding is called strength.
53. The great way is very even; yet people love the byways.
54. What is skillfully established will not be uprooted.
55. Things overgrown must decline.
56. Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.
57. Too obvious a growth in laws and regulations, and too many criminals emerge.
58. Misfortune! Good fortune supports it. Good Fortune! Misfortune hides within.
59. In leading people and serving Nature, there is nothing better than moderation.
60. Leading is like cooking a small fish.
61. …one receives by becoming low; another receives by being low.
62. If some are not good, why waste them?
63. Plan the difficult when it is easy; Handle the big where it is small.
64. People often spoil their work at the point of its completion. With care at the end as well as the beginning, no work will be spoiled.
65. To lead without cleverness will benefit…
66. Because evolved individuals do not compete, the world cannot compete with them.
67. Nature aids its leaders by arming them with compassion.
68. A skillful fighter does not feel anger.
69. No misfortune is greater than underestimating resistance…
70. My words are very easy to know, very easy to follow. Yet the world is unable to know them, unable to follow them.
71. To know that you do not know is best.
72. Evolved individuals know themselves but do not display themselves.
73. Nature decides which is evil, but who can know why?
74. Whoever substitutes for the master carpenter in carving, rarely escapes injury to his hands.
75. People are hungry. Because those above consume too much in taxes, people are hungry.
76. The position of the highly inflexible will descend; The position of the yielding and receptive will ascend.
77. Evolved individuals act without expectation, succeed without taking credit and have no desire to display their excellence.
78. The receptive triumphs over the inflexible; The yielding triumphs over the rigid.
79. Even when a great resentment is reconciled, some resentment must linger.
80. Let the people value their lives and yet not move far away.
81. Evolved individuals do not accumulate. The more they do for others, the more they gain; The more they give to others, the more they possess.

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