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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.

Laozi

The great Way is all-pervading. It reaches to the left and to the right. All things depend on it with their existence. Still it demands no obedience.
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Demand Depend Reach Taoism Thing Way
Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.
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Imperfect Perfection Taoism
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
Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
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Inspirational Intelligent Positivity
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
Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
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Crouch Happiness Misery
Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.
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Depth Heart Inspirational Kindness
Return animosity with virtue.
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Animosity Compassion Return 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
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
Loss is not as bad as wanting more.
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Loss More Require Taoism
Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.
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Manipulation Mind Serenity Taoism
From caring comes courage.
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Being Inspirational Inspiring Strong
In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
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Being Hard Time Stay Strong
Health is the greatest possession.
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Health Possession Wealth
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
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Self Esteem Spiritual Wisdom
Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.
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Brim Fill Halt Taoism Way
Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.
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Great Mountain Move River
He who loves does not dispute: He who disputes does not love.
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Dispute Emotion Feelings Love
No disaster is worse than being discontented.
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Disaster Tao Taoism
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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Baggage Emotion Grievance Past
The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
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Health Illness Knowledge Sage Taoism
Fail to honor people, they fail to honor you.
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Fail Honor People
Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.
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Inspirational Inspiring Strength
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
If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.
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Heart Home Nature Peace
The wise man knows he doesn’t know.
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Clevar Know Men Understand Wise

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