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Instead of being afraid of death, we should try to awake to life; and the only death we should escape from is to forget the presence of God into us.

Laozi

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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Deep Honor Inspirational Life
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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Contemplate Heart Mind Peace
Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
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Inspirational Intelligent Positivity
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
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
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Self Esteem Spiritual Wisdom
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
The farther you go, the less you know.
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Country Emotion Knows Leadership People Wisdom
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
All action begins in rest… This is the ultimate truth.
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Action Truth Ultimate
The sage acts by doing nothing.
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Done Nothing 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
There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.
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Earth Finish Heaven Something Taoism
In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
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Being Hard Time Stay Strong
I have the mind of a fool, understanding nothing.
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Knowledge Mind Understanding
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
Nature is not human hearted.
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Enlightening Hearted Nature

Instead of being afraid of death, we should try to awake to life; and the only death we should escape from is to forget the presence of God into us.

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