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Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.

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Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
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Action Root Silence
To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one’s true nature. Realization of one’s true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.
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Constant Happiness Nature Oneself Perfection Realize
Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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Broad Busy Calm Greatness Understand
Men do not mirror themselves in running water – they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.
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Deep Man Mirror Run Water
The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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Easy Forget Journey Right Way
When there is no more separation between ‘this’ and ‘that,’ it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.
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Infinite Point Religious Separate Sight View Yourself
The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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Chaos Doubt Priest
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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Earth Life Nature Return
The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.
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Occupy Sky Space Unity
If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.
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Life Point Purpose
The true man breathes with his heels.
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Breathe Heel Man One Liner Philosophy True
The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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Happiness Philosophy Ultimate
When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
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Action Transformation Word World
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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Generous Greatness Passion Small Speech Wisdom
To have attained to the human form is a source of joy. What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.
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Bliss Count Form Happiness Human Joy Source Transition
The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
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Better Choice King Man Position Stream Wisdom World

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