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Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.

Laozi

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
Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.
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Great Mountain Move River
The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream.
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Lying Mystery Stillness Water
Loss is not as bad as wanting more.
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Loss More Require Taoism
Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.
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Animal Empty Everything Fall Nature
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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Fulfill Inspirational Leadership Wisdom
The farther you go, the less you know.
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Country Emotion Knows Leadership People Wisdom
When people see some things as good, other things become bad.
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Book Country Life People
Not all spiritual paths lead to the harmonious Oneness. Indeed, most are detours and distractions, nothing more.
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Detours Distraction Oneness Spiritual
In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.
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Age Next People Praise
I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.
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Compassion Home Lack Taoism
Watch your thoughts, they become words.
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Determination Motivational Smart
To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
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Conquest Murder Rejoice
The sage acts by doing nothing.
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Done Nothing Sage Taoism
When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness. When righteousness is lost there are rituals.
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Taoism Virtue Way
What resists, persists.
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Emotions Feel Persist Resist

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