Vacuity, tranquillity, mellowness, quietness and taking no action characterise things of the universe at peace and represent the ultimate Tao and virtue. Therefore abide in them.
If you seek to understand the whole universe you will understand nothing at all but seek to understand yourself and you will understand the whole universe.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
The universe has been created out of knowledge and action and seems also possessed of consciousness.
Each man is a microcosm of the universe. Your body is made of all the elements of the world. Nature supplied all the ingredients that make your body, which means that the universe made you by donating itself. You could accurately say that you are a small walking universe that can move, whereas the cosmic universe is stationary.
