Not even the best of smiths can melt wood. 

Not even the best of carpenters can cut ice.

When nothing can be done about the way things are, 

the Wise stop worrying about the situation.

-Lao Tzu

Some words from Lao Tzu's other work.

If you go searching for the great Creator you'll come back  empty handed.

The source of the universe is ultimately unknowable, a great invisible river flowing forever through a vast and fertile valley.

Silent and uncreated, it creates all things.

All things are brought forth from the subtle realm into the manifest world by the mystical intercourse of yin and yang.

The dynamic river yang pushes forward, still valley yin is receptive, and through their integration things come into existence.

This is known as the Great Tai Chi.

Tai chi is the integral truth of the universe.

Everything is a tai chi: your body, the cosmic body, form, appearance, wisdom, energy, the unions of people, 

the dispersal of time and places.

Each brings itself into existence through the integration of yin and yang, maintains itself, 

and disperses itself without the direction of any Creator.

Your creation, your self-transformation, the accumulation of energy and wisdom, the decline and cessation of your body:

all takes place by themselves with in the subtle operation of the universe.

Therefore agitated effort is not necessary.

Just be aware of the Great Tai Chi.

from Hua Hu Ching  - Lao Tzu  (translation by Brian Walker)

If you go searching for the great Creator you'll come back  empty handed.The source of the universe is ultimately unknowable, a great invisible river flowing forever through a vast and fertile valley.Silent and uncreated, it creates all things.
All things are brought forth from the subtle realm into the manifest world by the mystical intercourse of yin and yang.The dynamic river yang pushes forward, still valley yin is receptive, and through their integration things come into existence.This is known as the Great Tai Chi.
Tai chi is the integral truth of the universe.Everything is a tai chi: your body, the cosmic body, form, appearance, wisdom, energy, the unions of people, the dispersal of time and places.Each brings itself into existence through the integration of yin and yang, maintains itself, and disperses itself without the direction of any Creator.Your creation, your self-transformation, the accumulation of energy and wisdom, the decline and cessation of your body:all takes place by themselves with in the subtle operation of the universe.
Therefore agitated effort is not necessary.Just be aware of the Great Tai Chi.

from Hua Hu Ching verse 39 - Lao Tzu  (translation by Brian Walker)