Tao gives all things life Te gives them fulfilment Nature is what shapes them Living is what brings them to completion Every creature honours Tao and worships Te not by force but through its own living and breathing
Though Tao gives life to all things Te is what cultivates them Te is that magic power that raises and rears them completes and prepares them comforts and protects them
To create without owning To give without expecting To fill without claiming This is the profound action of Tao The highest expression of Te