The very softest thing of all 

can ride like a galloping horse 

through the hardest of things.

Like water, like water penetrating rock. 

And so the invisible enters in.

That is why I know it is wise 

to act by doing nothing. 

And how few, how very few understand this!

People teach in the world 

what I know to be true:

if you live violently 

that is how you will die. 

Tao Te Ching