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To know you have enough is to be rich.

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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
With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.
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Conque Peace Power World
The world’s beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the mother. Until your last day you will not be harmed.
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Beginning Children Mother 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 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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Block Concept Name Perception Wise
Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
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Crouch Happiness Misery
Keep behind, and you shall be put in front; keep out, and you shall be kept in.
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Behind Compassion Humility
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
If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.
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Forever Heart Letting Surround
A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
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Artist Good Intuition Need Person
The great image lacks shape.
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Condition Great Image Look Shape Taoism
Heavy is the root of light.
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heavy Light Root Taoism
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
The farther you go, the less you know.
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Country Emotion Knows Leadership People Wisdom
If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.
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Heart Home Nature Peace
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.
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Arrive Artist Change Good Intuition

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