NOT SET IN STONE

Plain speaking outwits fancy speeches.
Simple words outlast artful manifestos.
Home truths outlive fanciful delusions.

A good advisor listens long, before speaking.
A good mentor learns much, before teaching.
A good leader thinks deeply, before acting.

The sage listens with both ears,
learns with their whole brain
and thinks with an open mind.

Exposing truths?
Suckling them!

A desire to make sense of existence can lead to philosophical axioms, ethical principles, or religious precepts becoming accepted as certainties.
This tends to make them stiff and brittle, and liable to erosion or even catastrophic failure, unless tempered by a flexibility of interpretation.

Tao's manifestation in the world is not static or unchanging, but dynamic and vibrantly alive; generating fresh, supple growth from its roots.
 The 'truths' of Taoism are not solid, but fluid; surviving not by passive stubbornness, but by active adaptation. Non-action is Tao's root, action its fruit.