As it appears in the world, the TAO is like the bending of a bow. The high part is brought downward, the low part is raised up. It adjusts excess and deficiency so that there is perfect balance. It takes from what is too much and gives to what is not enough. Those who try to control, who use force to protect their power, go against the direction of the TAO. They take from those who don't have enough and give to those who have far too much. Endowed with the TAO, you can keep going, there is no end to your wealth. You act without expectation, succeed without taking credit, and don't think that you are better than anyone else. Only a person of TAO can offer his surpluses to the world. TAO is a reversive power in nature which, like a pendulum, swings back and forth so that the process is unending. Nature avoids irreversible extremes. Heaven's way is the natural self-balancing act in all be beings. Heaven promotes equality, whereas humans are the cause of inequality in the world. Nature being dynamic and self-balancing, what is strong and dominant today becomes weak and submissive tomorrow. Human laws, however, interfere with nature's self-correcting rhythms. Inequalities and imbalances in human society, once legitimized by laws and institutions, do not revert on their own; the rich become richer and the poor poorer. Only a person of TAO, in tune with the self-balancing process of nature, offers surpluses to the deficient. Since Heaven presses down one who is puffed-up and lifts one who is depressed, the Sage is humble. Like Heaven, he does not hold on to what he has accomplished.