A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
LAO TZUHope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don’t see the self as self, what do we have to fear?
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Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. Stop running away and you will be found.
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Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.
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Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace.
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Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?
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One who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him.
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Avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
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If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
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The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.
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Stop thinking, and end your problems.
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Just remain in the center; watching. And then forget that you are there.
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We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.
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Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
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When the student is ready the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready. The teacher will Disappear.
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Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.
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Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.
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The past has no power to stop you from being present now.
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
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He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him, and protect him with love.
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The road you can talk about is not the road you can walk on.
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If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
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Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
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Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.
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“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.
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