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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.

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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
I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.
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Compassion Home Lack Taoism
What resists, persists.
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Emotions Feel Persist Resist
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
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Self Esteem Spiritual Wisdom
He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.
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Enemy Friend Friendship Honor Men Unconcern
Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.
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Manipulation Mind Serenity 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
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
A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
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Acceptance Broken Heart Tree
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
Wear down to be renewed.
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Country Life People Renew Taoism
All action begins in rest… This is the ultimate truth.
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Action Truth Ultimate
With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.
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Conque Peace Power World
A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
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Artist Good Intuition Need Person
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
Follow diligently the Way in your own heart, but make no display of it to the world.
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Compassion Heart Humility World

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.

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