Tao Te Ching

“The Tao is the way things are which you can't depart from even for one instant.”

— Zisi 子思 481 – 402 BCE via Stephen Mitchell
(Kong Ji or Tzu-Ssu)
Confucius' grandson and early influence on Neo-Confucianism
from Doctrine of the Mean, Maintaining Perfect Balance, Zhongyong 中庸