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

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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
The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
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Criminal Law Taoism
Make the small big and the few many.
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Big Few Make Small Taoism
Return animosity with virtue.
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Animosity Compassion Return 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
Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
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Army Before Humility Leadership Other Put
A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered.
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Multitudes Taoism Tiresome
The wise man knows without traveling.
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Know Man Travel Wise
With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.
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Conque Peace Power World
The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
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Health Illness Knowledge Sage Taoism
The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion.
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Baggage Emotion Grievance Past
The True Person benefits yet expects no reward, does the work and moves on. There is no desire to be considered better than others.
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Desire Earth Inspirational Move
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
When people see some things as good, other things become bad.
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Book Country Life People
For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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Business Limited Wisdom Wise
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

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