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In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

Laozi

Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world.
LAOZI

REquired Take Taoism Temper World
Excellent warriors are not violent.
LAOZI

Excellent Taoism Violent Warrior
When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.
LAOZI

Animal Intelligent Separate Soul
That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.
LAOZI

Fact Known Overcoming Practice
The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
LAOZI

Health Illness Knowledge Sage Taoism
A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
LAOZI

Artist Good Intuition Need Person
Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return.
LAOZI

Contemplate Heart Mind Peace
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
Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.
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Great Mountain Move River
All action begins in rest… This is the ultimate truth.
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Action Truth Ultimate
Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.
LAOZI

Mastery Principles Superior Triumph
What resists, persists.
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Emotions Feel Persist Resist
Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
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Inspirational Intelligent Positivity
The farther you go, the less you know.
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Country Emotion Knows Leadership People Wisdom
Fail to honor people, they fail to honor you.
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Fail Honor People
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.
LAOZI

Being Free Name Simplicity

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

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