Tao te Ching: 64

What remains still is easy to hold.
What is not yet manifest is easy to plan for.
What is brittle is easy to crack.
What is minute is easy to scatter.
Deal with things before they appear.
Put things in order before disorder arises.
A tree as big as a man's embrace grows from a tiny shoot.
A tower of nine stories begins with a heap of earth.
The journey of a thousand li starts from where one stands.
He who takes an action fails.
He who grasps at things loses them.
For this reason the sage takes no action and therefore does not fail.
He grasps nothing and therefore he does not lose anything.
People in their handling of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful in the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
Therefore the sage desires to have no desire.
He does not value rare treasures.
He learns to be unlearned, and return to what the multitude has missed (Tao).
Thus he supports all things in their natural state but does not take any action.

Lines 1 through 6 harken back to the previous chapter. Take care of things before they get out of hand. Deal with small tasks to deal with the larger task. In fact, the third line echoes Chapter 22 very nicely:

To yield is to be preserved whole.To be bent is to become straight.

Problems should be dealt with while small and easy, but the sage should learn to yield to things larger than him so that he is not the small and brittle thing that the problem "deals with".

The second section is the birthplace of another commonly used saying: A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Something changes in the translation (a li is an odd unit of measurement for westerners). The next lines are found elsewhere in the Tao te Ching but readers will know them from somewhere else. Master Yoda. "Do or do not. There is no try." Don't take an action. Just do it. Don't covet things and wrap yourself up in desire, because eventually you will lose them. Things are just things. You can't take it with you.

A sage does. A sage handles everything seriously and gives it enough to succeed without expending himself with wasted effort. A sage doesn't form attachments to things because all things are a part of the ten thousand things and ultimately, a part of Tao. If you attain Tao, you attain everything. The Buddhists have a train of thought that runs parallel to this.

I like the last two lines the best. "He learns to be unlearned" means to return to  a childlike state without bias and discrimination and preconceptions. That childlike state is the natural state where one can attain the true Tao. The Buddhists call it Buddha Nature. It is the non-dualistic property inherent in every person and everything. For the Buddhists, enlightenment causes Buddha Nature to blossom like a flower. For Taoists, the only non-dualistic thing is Tao.