An idea from Tao Te Ching

The Tao in its regular course does nothing (for the sake of doing it), and so there is nothing which it does not do. This is wu wei, acting without forcing, the way a plant grows. It isn’t laziness. It means dropping the extra push.

From Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

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