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Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.

Laozi

All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.
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Desire Men Taoism Themselves
Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream.
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Dream Opportunity Success Weed
The great image lacks shape.
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Condition Great Image Look Shape Taoism
Health is the greatest possession.
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Health Possession Wealth
Heavy is the root of light.
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heavy Light Root Taoism
Instead of being afraid of death, we should try to awake to life; and the only death we should escape from is to forget the presence of God into us.
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Death Escape Feel Forget Try
He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.
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Enemy Friend Friendship Honor Men Unconcern
In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.
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Give Knowledge Ignorant People
The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
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Health Illness Knowledge Sage Taoism
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
Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.
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Depth Heart Inspirational Kindness
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.
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Arrive Artist Change Good Intuition
If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.
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Forever Heart Letting Surround
Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
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Fail Loses Seize Taoism
The sage acts by doing nothing.
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Done Nothing Sage Taoism

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