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Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it.

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So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness Sometimes one is up and sometimes down. Therefore the sage avoids extremes, excesses, and complacency.
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Thirty spokes meet in the hub. Where a wheel isn't is where it's useful. Hollowed out, clay makes a pot. Where the pots not is where it's useful. Cut doors and windows to make a room. Where the room isn't, there's room for you. So the profit in what is, is in the use of what isn't.
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You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow.
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The sage never strives for greatness, and can therefore accomplish greatness.
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Once upon a time a man whose ax was missing suspected his neighbor's son. The boy walked like a thief, looked like a thief and spoke like a thief. But the man found his ax while digging in the valley, and the next time he saw his neighbor's son, the boy walked, looked and spoke like any other child.
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Practice non-action. Work without doing.
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Those who are unswerving have resolve
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Where there is no conflict, there is no fault.
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The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.
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The best way to manage anything is by making use of its own nature.
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When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance.
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The world is a sacred vessel that cannot be changed. He who changes it will destroy it. He who seizes it will lose it.
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What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.
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{The cleansing of spiritual contamination} is accomplished by offering one's talent, resources, and life to the world.
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Stillness is easy to maintain.
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Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.
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Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the credit. Learn to lead without coercion.
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The Tao doesn't take sides it gives birth to both good and evil. The Master doesn't take sides she welcomes both saints and sinners. The Tao is like a bellows: it is empty yet infinitely capable. The more you use it, the more it produces the more you talk of it, the less you understand. Hold on to the center.
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The sage knows without traveling, perceives without looking, completes without acting.
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A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip A terrace nine stories high rises from level earth A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.
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