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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.

Laozi

Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
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Fail Loses Seize Taoism
Not praising the deserving prevents envy.
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Envy Praise Prevent Taoism
The sage acts by doing nothing.
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Done Nothing Sage Taoism
Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.
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Imperfect Perfection Taoism
The world is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering.
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Courses Go Letting World
That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.
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Fact Known Overcoming Practice
To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
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Conquest Murder Rejoice
When people see some things as good, other things become bad.
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Book Country Life People
When the uncarved wood is split, its parts are put to use. When the sage is put to use, he becomes the head.
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Perceive Sage Taoism Use
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
A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.
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Done Foolish Man Mad Result
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
Heavy is the root of light.
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heavy Light Root Taoism
To lead, one must follow.
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Follow Leadership Must People Vlife
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 light of the Way seems dim.
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Dim Light Reflection Taoism Way

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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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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