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Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.
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Animal Empty Everything Fall Nature
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.
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Heart Matter People Trying Vice
The farther you go, the less you know.
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Country Emotion Knows Leadership People Wisdom
Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.
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Country Credit Giving Lead People Tke
If you want to be given everything, give everything up.
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Ching Country People Give Life Taoism
Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.
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Imperfect Perfection Taoism
The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
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Flame Inspirational Long Philosophy
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
The Master doesn’t seek fulfillment. For only those who are not full are able to be used which brings the feeling of completeness.
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Able Feeling Taoism Together
Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
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Crouch Happiness Misery
Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
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Fail Loses Seize Taoism
In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.
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Give Knowledge Ignorant People
The sage knows himself, but does not parade. He cherishes himself, but does not praise himself.
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Cheish Sage Taoism
. . . 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
Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.
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Manipulation Mind Serenity Taoism
Wear down to be renewed.
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Country Life People Renew Taoism

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