Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.
LAOZIWhen the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.
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What resists, persists.
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To lead, one must follow.
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Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
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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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In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.
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The farther you go, the less you know.
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All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
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…the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
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Stop thinking, and end your problems.
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There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.
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Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
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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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To know you have enough is to be rich.
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Not all spiritual paths lead to the harmonious Oneness. Indeed, most are detours and distractions, nothing more.
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