5. The Principle of Acceptance

If day and night, summer and winter are well with you, you have surpassed the contradictions.

4. The Principle of Proportion

Things are well when they move together, not in isolation.

3. The Principle of Well Timed Action

Do not oppose a great force. Retreat until it weakens, then advance with resolution.

2. The Principle of Action and Reaction

When you force something toward an end, you produce the contrary.

1. The Principle of Adaptation

To go against the evolution of things is to go against yourself.