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What resists, persists.

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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
The world is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering.
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Courses Go Letting World
The farther you go, the less you know.
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Country Emotion Knows Leadership People Wisdom
When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people’s hearts.
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Heart Love People Realize
Return animosity with virtue.
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Animosity Compassion Return Taoism
Follow diligently the Way in your own heart, but make no display of it to the world.
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Compassion Heart Humility World
He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled. He that is worn out shall be renewed. He who has little shall succeed. He who has much shall go astray.
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Empty Entire Humility Little Succeed
There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.
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Earth Finish Heaven Something Taoism
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 sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
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Health Illness Knowledge Sage Taoism
When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.
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Animal Intelligent Separate Soul
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
Meet the big while it is small.
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Big People Small Taoism
Make the small big and the few many.
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Big Few Make Small Taoism
Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it’s own accord.
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Being Free Name Simplicity
Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man’s tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.
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Choice Instrument Men Tool Weapon Wise

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