Know how to fall before you fly. Yield if you want to remain whole and intact. Bend if you want to become straight. Empty if you want to be filled. Die if you want to be reborn. Give if you want to receive. Run down, get down, if you want to be recharged. The TAOist, by residing in the TAO, is an example for all beings. Enlightened, he does not display himself. He has nothing to prove. People trust him. He does not compete. People do not fear him. People recognize themselves in him. He has no expectations. He does not seek rewards, recognition, or results. Therefore everything he does succeeds. Even failure is looked at as a learning. Getting older is a new experience for him, and thus he remains always young. When the ancient TAOists said: "If you want to be given everything, give everything up", they weren't using empty phrases. Only in being lived by the TAO can you be truly yourself.