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See others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.

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Quarrel with a friend – and you are both wrong.
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Friendship Quarrel Wrong
. . . 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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Idea Past Possessed Truth
Make the small big and the few many.
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Big Few Make Small Taoism
Meandering leads to perfection.
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Hike Journey Meander Perfection
Become totally empty Quiet the restlessness of the mind Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness
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Emptiness Inspirational Mind
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.
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Deep Honor Inspirational Life
There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.
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Earth Finish Heaven Something Taoism
The great image lacks shape.
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Condition Great Image Look Shape Taoism
Return animosity with virtue.
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Animosity Compassion Return Taoism
Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.
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Deed Honor Marketplace Men
The sage knows himself, but does not parade. He cherishes himself, but does not praise himself.
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Cheish Sage Taoism
When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people’s hearts.
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Heart Love People Realize
The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
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Health Illness Knowledge Sage Taoism
To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
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Conquest Murder Rejoice
He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled. He that is worn out shall be renewed. He who has little shall succeed. He who has much shall go astray.
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Empty Entire Humility Little Succeed
That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.
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Fact Known Overcoming Practice

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