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Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.

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Take [preventive] action before things happen. Establish order before disorder has begun.
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Action Begun Establish Happen Order
Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
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Fail Loses Seize Taoism
With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.
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Conque Peace Power 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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Arrive Artist Change Good Intuition
One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
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Inspirational Internal Peace Spiritual
What resists, persists.
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Emotions Feel Persist Resist
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
When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness. When righteousness is lost there are rituals.
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Taoism Virtue Way
Every step is on the path.
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Every Follow Journey Path Step Taoism
In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.
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Ignore Influence Negative Order
The ego is entranced by … names and ideas… However names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore it is wise to ignore them. Those who live inside their egos are continually bewildered.
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Block Concept Name Perception Wise
The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
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Criminal Law Taoism
An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing.
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Accomplish Action Inspirational Integral
Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.
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Inspirational Inspiring Strength
The sage acts by doing nothing.
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Done Nothing Sage Taoism
The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing.
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Accomplish Doing Master Nothing

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