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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.

Laozi

To lead, one must follow.
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Follow Leadership Must People Vlife
Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.
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Manipulation Mind Serenity Taoism
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
If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?
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Country Law People Taoism
The light of the Way seems dim.
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Dim Light Reflection Taoism Way
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
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
No disaster is worse than being discontented.
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Disaster Tao Taoism
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
Make the small big and the few many.
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Big Few Make Small Taoism
Keep behind, and you shall be put in front; keep out, and you shall be kept in.
LAOZI

Behind Compassion Humility
When the highest type of people hear Tao (Truth), they diligently practice it. When the average type of people hear Tao, they half believe in it. When the lowest type of people hear Tao, they laugh at it. If they did not laugh, it would not be Tao.
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Average Believe Diligently Practice
He who loves does not dispute: He who disputes does not love.
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Dispute Emotion Feelings Love
The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
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Flame Inspirational Long Philosophy
The wise man knows without traveling.
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Know Man Travel Wise
If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.
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Heart Home Nature Peace

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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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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