“Thinking that you are good can make you bad. Talking about positive behavior can encourage negative behavior. Laozi is clearly on to something when he warns us that consciously trying to be righteous will, in fact, turn us into insufferable hypocrites and that anyone striving to attain virtue is destined to fail. What are we then to do? According to Laozi, we just need to go home.” from “Trying Not to Try: Ancient China, Modern Science, and the Power of Spontaneity” by Edward Slingerland