Laozi said, “The way to guard life consists in the following:

Can you encompass the unity of body and spirit?
Can you sustain it?
Can you know the fortunate and the unfortunate without
relying on the divination of the tortoise shell or the yarrow sticks?
Can you rest where you ought to rest?
Can you stop when you’ve had enough?
Can you cease relying upon others
and search what you desire in yourself alone?
Can you be free from enticements?
Can you become entirely simple?
Can you become an infant?

The infant can cry all day without becoming hoarse—he/she is in perfect harmony
with the functioning of his/her physical constitution. He/she can keep his/her fingers closed all day without loosening their grip, because his/her strength is not diverted. He/she can look fixedly all day without blinking because he/she is not diverted by what is external. He/she goes not knowing where; he/she stays not knowing what he/she does.

He/she is not bound by things even as he/she follows their movements.
This is the way to guard the life.”*

Zhuangzi trans by Hyun Höchsmann and Yan Guorong, Book 23 Gensang Chu

A dialog between Nanrong Chu the student/patient and Laozi, a teacher-counselor – taoist adept continues. The similarity between a contemporary professional therapeutic engagement is unmistakable. A skilled teacher takes a measure of the student then opens with questions to evoke a receptive mind. What might Chu have responded to such questions? What would you reply to these?

The illustration of the innocence and power of an infant conveys what Laozi offers to Chu. Höchsmann and Guorong in the footnotes to their translation refer to a W. B. Yeats poem which highlights such a state of Radical Innocence.

*Knowledge shall he unwind
Till, clambering at the cradle side,
He dreams himself his mothers pride,
All knowledge lost in trance
Of sweet Ignorance

“Shepherd and the Goatherd,” The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats, New York: Macmillan,
1976, p. 143

A concluding comment on the phrase relying on the divination of the tortoise shell or the yarrow sticks. Laozi cautions against attributing causality to a supernatural dimension for whatever circumstances may obtain. Do not entertain that god(s) on high, even a resurrected divinity is directly involved with the minutiae of your life. Many of us, too many are “looking for a sign” or consulting a horoscope, or paying an adept to interpret the fall of Chinese fortune sticks. Seize full responsibility for your well being, listen to your body advises Laozi.

Someone has put this a bit differently: 

Life (the gods) is not out to get me.
It happens to involve me…
but it does not revolve around me…
Do not be upset, hurt, offended, broken, or bitter.