The greatest path is the one you are on. When a country is in harmony with the TAO, the people live in harmony with nature and work together in cooperation to satisfy their needs, being mostly concerned with survival and shelter. When a country goes counter to the TAO, people live in strife and fear, mistrust, and paranoia, creating war-machines and weapons designed for death and destruction. Force is used to control them. There is no greater illusion than fear. Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe. There is no greater waste than preparing to defend yourself, no greater misfortune than having an enemy. There is no evil worse than ambition, no misery worse than discontent. Contentment that derives from knowing when to be content is eternal contentment. Only he who knows what is enough will always have enough. There is no crime greater than greed, no worry greater than being covetous, no work worse than doing another's will and even worse being "forced" to do it. All religions see desire or craving as the root of suffering and an obstacle to union with the divine.