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Become totally empty Quiet the restlessness of the mind Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness

Laozi

The transformation toward eternal life is gradual. The heavy gross energy of body, mind, and spirit must first be purified and uplifted. When the energy ascends… then self mastery can be sought.
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Energy Mind Purify Self
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
In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.
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Age Next People Praise
. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.
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Idea Past Possessed Truth
Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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Enemy Human Inspirational Men
Watch your thoughts, they become words.
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Determination Motivational Smart
If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?
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Country Law People Taoism
Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
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Crouch Happiness Misery
When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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Deep Honor Inspirational Life
Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.
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Imperfect Perfection Taoism
Meandering leads to perfection.
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Hike Journey Meander Perfection
The world’s beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the mother. Until your last day you will not be harmed.
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Beginning Children Mother Taoism
Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world.
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REquired Take Taoism Temper World
Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength
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Motivational Strength Wisdom
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
Heavy is the root of light.
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heavy Light Root Taoism

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