The Principles of Valid Action
1. To go against the evolution of things is to go against yourself.
1. To go against the evolution of things is to go against yourself.
2. When you force something towards an end, you produce the contrary.
4. Things are well when they move together, not in isolation.
5. If day and night, summer and winter are fine with you, you have overcome the contradictions.
6. If you pursue pleasure, you enchain yourself to suffering. But as long as you do not harm your health, enjoy without inhibition when the opportunity presents itself.
7. If you pursue an end, you enchain yourself. If everything you do you realize as though it were an end in itself, you liberate yourself.
8. You will make your conflicts disappear when you understand them in their ultimate root, not when you want to resolve them.
9. When you harm others you remain enchained, but if you do not harm anyone you may freely do whatever you want.
10. When you treat others as you would have them treat you, you liberate yourself.
11. It does not matter in what faction events have placed you. What matters is for you to comprehend that you have not chosen any faction.
12. Contradictory and unifying actions accumulate within you. If you repeat your acts of internal unity, nothing can detain you.