avoid forced efforts

  • Dao De Jing – Chapter 45

    Who thinks his great achievements poorShall find his vigour long endure.Of greatest fulness, deemed a void,Exhaustion never shall stem the tide.Do thou what’s straight still crooked deem;Thy greatest art still stupid seem,And eloquence a stammering scream. Constant action overcomes cold; being still overcomes heat. Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under…