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

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Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
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Fail Loses Seize Taoism
The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
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Criminal Law Taoism
In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.
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Ignore Influence Negative Order
No disaster is worse than being discontented.
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Disaster Tao Taoism
Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.
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Great Mountain Move River
If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.
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Deed Elevate Kindness Spiritual Wick
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
The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.
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Mourn Triumph Weapon
…the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
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Saint Sinners Tao Te Ching Taoism
The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
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Health Illness Knowledge Sage Taoism
Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it’s own accord.
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Being Free Name Simplicity
Return animosity with virtue.
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Animosity Compassion Return Taoism
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
What resists, persists.
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Emotions Feel Persist Resist
Meet the difficult while it is easy.
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Difficult Easy Meet Taoism
To know you have enough is to be rich.
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Country People Rich Simplicity

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