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If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.

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Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength
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Motivational Strength Wisdom
To lead, one must follow.
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Follow Leadership Must People Vlife
The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
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Health Illness Knowledge Sage Taoism
To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
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Conquest Murder Rejoice
What resists, persists.
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Emotions Feel Persist Resist
. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.
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Idea Past Possessed Truth
See others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.
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Compassion Country Taoism Town
Meandering leads to perfection.
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Hike Journey Meander Perfection
In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.
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Age Next People Praise
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.
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Arrive Artist Change Good Intuition
If you have really attained wholeness, everything will flock to you.
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Everything Flock Mindfulness Wholeness
If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.
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Deed Elevate Kindness Spiritual Wick
Quarrel with a friend – and you are both wrong.
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Friendship Quarrel Wrong
When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people’s hearts.
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Heart Love People Realize
Not praising the deserving prevents envy.
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Envy Praise Prevent Taoism
To be constantly without desire is the way to have a vision of the mystery of heaven and earth. For constantly to have desire is the means by which their limitations are seen.
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Heaven Mean Vision

If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.

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If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.

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