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

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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
To know you have enough is to be rich.
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Country People Rich Simplicity
The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
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Health Illness Knowledge Sage Taoism
Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.
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Manipulation Mind Serenity Taoism
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
When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.
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Animal Intelligent Separate Soul
Meet the big while it is small.
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Big People Small Taoism
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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Deem Humorous Love Witty
What resists, persists.
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Emotions Feel Persist Resist
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
Make the small big and the few many.
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Big Few Make Small Taoism
What is a good man but a bad man’s teacher? What is a bad man but a good man’s job? If you do not remember this, You will get lost, No matter how intelligent you are. It is the great secret.
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Good Intelligent Job Man Teacher
The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
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Flame Inspirational Long Philosophy
Why is the sea king of a hundred streams? Because it lies below them… If the sage would guide the people, he must serve with humility. If he would lead them, he must follow behind. In this way when the sage rules, the people will not feel oppressed.
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Below Humility King Lying People
Every step is on the path.
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Every Follow Journey Path Step Taoism
Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.
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Imperfect Perfection Taoism

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