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Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.

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If you have really attained wholeness, everything will flock to you.
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Everything Flock Mindfulness Wholeness
A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered.
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Multitudes Taoism Tiresome
Make the small big and the few many.
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Big Few Make Small Taoism
All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.
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Desire Men Taoism Themselves
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
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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Death Escape Feel Forget Try
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
Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world.
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REquired Take Taoism Temper World
Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.
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Brim Fill Halt Taoism Way
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
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
Excellent warriors are not violent.
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Excellent Taoism Violent Warrior
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
All action begins in rest… This is the ultimate truth.
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Action Truth Ultimate
No disaster is worse than being discontented.
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Disaster Tao Taoism
The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.
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Mourn Triumph Weapon

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