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When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.

Laozi

No disaster is worse than being discontented.
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Disaster Tao Taoism
He who loves does not dispute: He who disputes does not love.
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Dispute Emotion Feelings Love
The Great Tao flows everywhere, to the left and to the right, all things depend on it to exist, and it does not abandon them. To its accomplishments it lays no claims. It loves and nourished all things, but does not lord it over them.
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Abandon Accomplishment Inspirational
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 sage acts by doing nothing.
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Done Nothing Sage Taoism
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
Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.
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Mastery Principles Superior Triumph
The weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it.
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Everybody Overcome Strong Taoism
Return animosity with virtue.
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Animosity Compassion Return 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
Keep behind, and you shall be put in front; keep out, and you shall be kept in.
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Behind Compassion Humility
Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.
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Brim Fill Halt Taoism Way
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
Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
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Crouch Happiness Misery
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
Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose
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Gain Inspirational Lose People Some

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