Lao-tse (c. 600-500 B.C.E.)

The great Tao floods over,
To the left, to the right,
Ten thousand beings live by it,
And it does not reject them.
Work is accomplished, and yet it has no name.
It clothes and nourishes the ten thousand beings,
But does not lord over them.
Always without desire,
It may be named the small.
The ten thousand beings return to it,
Yet it does not lord over them.
It may be named the great.
Because it never considers itself great,
Therefore it can accomplish its greatness.
(Tao te Ching 34)