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Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return.

Laozi

A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
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Artist Good Intuition Need Person
The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing.
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Accomplish Doing Master Nothing
Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.
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Deed Honor Marketplace Men
Not praising the deserving prevents envy.
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Envy Praise Prevent Taoism
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
Stop thinking, and end your problems.
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Country Life People Taoism Thinking
If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.
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Forever Heart Letting Surround
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
Watch your thoughts, they become words.
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Determination Motivational Smart
When the uncarved wood is split, its parts are put to use. When the sage is put to use, he becomes the head.
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Perceive Sage Taoism Use
The farther you go, the less you know.
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Country Emotion Knows Leadership People Wisdom
The great Way is all-pervading. It reaches to the left and to the right. All things depend on it with their existence. Still it demands no obedience.
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Demand Depend Reach Taoism Thing Way
The world is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering.
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Courses Go Letting World
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
The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
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Health Illness Knowledge Sage Taoism
Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.
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Great Mountain Move River

Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return.

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