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If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.

Laozi

I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.
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Compassion Home Lack Taoism
Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.
LAOZI

Deed Honor Marketplace Men
What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.
LAOZI

Abandon Kings People Sell Taoism
The wise man knows without traveling.
LAOZI

Know Man Travel Wise
When the uncarved wood is split, its parts are put to use. When the sage is put to use, he becomes the head.
LAOZI

Perceive Sage Taoism Use
If you have really attained wholeness, everything will flock to you.
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Everything Flock Mindfulness Wholeness
An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing.
LAOZI

Accomplish Action Inspirational Integral
The world’s big things only can be done by paying attention to their humble beginnings.
LAOZI

Attention Country Done Emotion Humble People
The farther you go, the less you know.
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Country Emotion Knows Leadership People Wisdom
Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.
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Great Mountain Move River
The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
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Flame Inspirational Long Philosophy
Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
LAOZI

Army Before Humility Leadership Other Put
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
Not all spiritual paths lead to the harmonious Oneness. Indeed, most are detours and distractions, nothing more.
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Detours Distraction Oneness Spiritual
Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
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Crouch Happiness Misery
Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.
LAOZI

Depth Heart Inspirational Kindness

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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