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Those who know are wise. Those who know themselves are enlightened.

Laozi

The weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it.
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Everybody Overcome Strong Taoism
When the uncarved wood is split, its parts are put to use. When the sage is put to use, he becomes the head.
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Perceive Sage Taoism Use
Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.
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Animal Empty Everything Fall Nature
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
Wear down to be renewed.
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Country Life People Renew Taoism
If you want to be given everything, give everything up.
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Ching Country People Give Life Taoism
The Great Tao flows everywhere, to the left and to the right, all things depend on it to exist, and it does not abandon them. To its accomplishments it lays no claims. It loves and nourished all things, but does not lord it over them.
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Abandon Accomplishment Inspirational
Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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Enemy Human Inspirational Men
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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Compassion Country Taoism Town
Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
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Fail Loses Seize Taoism
…the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
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Saint Sinners Tao Te Ching Taoism
Nature is not human hearted.
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Enlightening Hearted Nature
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
No disaster is worse than being discontented.
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Disaster Tao Taoism
Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose
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Gain Inspirational Lose People Some
. . . 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

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