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The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.
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Heart Matter People Trying Vice
Loss is not as bad as wanting more.
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Loss More Require Taoism
Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
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Army Before Humility Leadership Other Put
The transformation toward eternal life is gradual. The heavy gross energy of body, mind, and spirit must first be purified and uplifted. When the energy ascends… then self mastery can be sought.
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Energy Mind Purify Self
Those who know are wise. Those who know themselves are enlightened.
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Breathtaking Themselves Wisdom Wise
Make the small big and the few many.
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Big Few Make Small Taoism
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
Quarrel with a friend – and you are both wrong.
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Friendship Quarrel Wrong
Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
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Crouch Happiness Misery
For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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Business Limited Wisdom Wise
The wise man knows he doesn’t know.
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Clevar Know Men Understand Wise
Meet the big while it is small.
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Big People Small Taoism
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
What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.
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Abandon Kings People Sell Taoism
The world’s big things only can be done by paying attention to their humble beginnings.
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Attention Country Done Emotion Humble People
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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Deem Humorous Love Witty

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