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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

He who loves does not dispute: He who disputes does not love.
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Dispute Emotion Feelings Love
The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
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Health Illness Knowledge Sage Taoism
…the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
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Saint Sinners Tao Te Ching Taoism
The ego is entranced by … names and ideas… However names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore it is wise to ignore them. Those who live inside their egos are continually bewildered.
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Block Concept Name Perception Wise
Keep behind, and you shall be put in front; keep out, and you shall be kept in.
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Behind Compassion Humility
Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose
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Gain Inspirational Lose People Some
The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
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Flame Inspirational Long Philosophy
. . . 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
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
Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
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Crouch Happiness Misery
A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.
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Care Clay Form Space Vessel
If you want to be given everything, give everything up.
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Ching Country People Give Life Taoism
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 sage knows himself, but does not parade. He cherishes himself, but does not praise himself.
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Cheish Sage Taoism
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
The wise man knows without traveling.
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Know Man Travel Wise

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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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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