I've had this gorgeous red leather volume of the Tao Te Ching (pictured above) sitting on my desk untouched for many months.

Lao Tzu, the Great ancient Chinese thinker, once observed in his well-known work, the Tao te Ching, "he who knows others is intelligent; he who knows himself is wise."

When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. -- Tao Te Ching