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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.

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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
When people see some things as good, other things become bad.
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Book Country Life People
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
Follow diligently the Way in your own heart, but make no display of it to the world.
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Compassion Heart Humility World
Keep behind, and you shall be put in front; keep out, and you shall be kept in.
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Behind Compassion Humility
With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.
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Conque Peace Power World
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.
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Army Before Humility Leadership Other Put
Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
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Crouch Happiness Misery
The transformation toward eternal life is gradual. The heavy gross energy of body, mind, and spirit must first be purified and uplifted. When the energy ascends… then self mastery can be sought.
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Energy Mind Purify Self
A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
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Artist Good Intuition Need Person
The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion.
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Baggage Emotion Grievance Past
The great image lacks shape.
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Condition Great Image Look Shape Taoism
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 world’s beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the mother. Until your last day you will not be harmed.
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Beginning Children Mother Taoism
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

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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