When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
LAOZIIf you have really attained wholeness, everything will flock to you.
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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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Wear down to be renewed.
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…the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
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If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.
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A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
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The wise man knows he doesn’t know.
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From caring comes courage.
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Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength
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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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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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Watch your thoughts, they become words.
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. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.
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The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
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Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.
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Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.
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