David Given Schwarm

Distress is increased every day
in the effort to gain.
But this distress is daily diminished
in the practice of Tao.

If you can curtail your effort daily
until nothing of it is left,
then when effort is gone
nothing is done
and nothing is left to do.

A person might, without the lease distress,
undertake government of the world.
But those who distress themselves
about governing the world
are not fit for it.