Non-Action

"When one who wishes to take the world in hand tries to make it (according to his wishes by active measures of his own), I perceive that he will never have done. The spiritual vessels of the world must not be made. He that makes, mars. He that grasps, loses. For in the nature of things, while one goes ahead, another will lag behind; while one blows hot, another will blow cold; while one is strengthened, another is weakened; while one is supported, another falls. Therefore the wise man (simply) puts away all excess, and gaiety, and grandeur."