' Hold fast to the Center '...

Heaven and earth are impartial;
They see the ten thousand things as straw dogs.

The wise are impartial;
They see the people as straw dogs.

The space between heaven and earth is like a bellows.

The shape changes but not the form;
The more it moves, the more it yields.

More words count less.

Hold fast to the center.



- Lao-tzu

Tao Te Ching
Translation by Gia-fu Feng and Jane English
Vintage Books Edition, September 1972