#yielding

Can you let your body become as supple and yielding as a newborn child's?

Yielding, like melting ice; simple, like uncarved wood; empty, like a valley; obscure, like muddy water.

The ancient saying, 'Yield and overcome,' is not an empty phrase. Truly, if you yield, you will be whole.

The soft and the yielding overcome the hard and the strong.

Nothing in the world is more soft and yielding than water. Yet for attacking the hard and strong, nothing can surpass it.

That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the rigid: everyone knows this, yet no one can put it into practice.

Therefore an army that cannot yield will be defeated. A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind.

The more you give up control, the more power you have. Real power is the power of yielding, like water.

Pushing against a silk curtain only exhausts the fist.

The water that yields to the riverbed eventually carves through the stone.

The axe must strike the timber where the grain allows, not where stubborn fury commands.

The river flows through the granite canyon not by fighting the stone, but by embracing its contours.

The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.