Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle.
LAO TZUWhen you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.
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When the student is ready the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready. The teacher will Disappear.
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The best fighter is never angry.
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Silence is a source of Great Strength.
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Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don’t see the self as self, what do we have to fear?
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New Beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.
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One who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him.
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Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.
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Avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
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Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
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Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
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Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.
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