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Chapters 21-40
CHAPTER 21:
The Tao is ungraspable. The Tao is dark and unfathomable.
Since before time and space were, the Tao is.
CHAPTER 22:
When the ancient Masters said, "If you want to be given everything, give everything up,"
Only in being lived by the Tao can you be truly yourself.
CHAPTER 23:
Open yourself to the Tao, then trust your natural responses;
and everything will fall into place.
CHAPTER 24:
If you want to accord with the Tao, just do your job, then let go.
CHAPTER 25:
There was something formless and perfect before the universe was born.
The universe follows the Tao. The Tao follows only itself.
CHAPTER 26:
If you let restlessness move you, you lose touch with who you are.
CHAPTER 27:
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving.
A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.
CHAPTER 28:
If you receive the world, the Tao will never leave you.
If you are a pattern for the world, the Tao will be strong inside you.
If you accept the world, the Tao will be luminous inside you.
CHAPTER 29:
The Master sees things as they are, without trying to control them.
She lets them go their own way, and resides at the center of the circle.
CHAPTER 30:
For every force there is a counterforce.
The Master does his job and then stops.
CHAPTER 31:
He enters a battle gravely, with sorrow and with great compassion,
as if he were attending a funeral.
CHAPTER 32:
All things end in the Tao as rivers flow into the sea.
CHAPTER 33:
If you stay in the center and embrace death with your whole heart,
you will endure forever.
CHAPTER 34:
The great Tao flows everywhere.
It isn't aware of its greatness; thus it is truly great.
CHAPTER 35:
When you look for it, there is nothing to see.
When you listen for it, there is nothing to hear.
When you use it, it is inexhaustible.
CHAPTER 36:
Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.
CHAPTER 37:
The Tao never does anything, yet through it all things are done.
When there is no desire, all things are at peace.
CHAPTER 38:
He has no will of his own. He dwells in reality, and lets all illusions go.
CHAPTER 39:
He doesn't glitter like a jewel but lets himself be shaped by the Tao,
as rugged and common as stone.
CHAPTER 40:
Return is the movement of the Tao. Yielding is the way of the Tao.
All things are born of being. Being is born of non-being.
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