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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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My own words are not the medicine, but a prescription not the destination, but a map to help you reach it. When you get there, quiet your mind and close your mouth. Don't analyze the Tao. Strive instead to live it: silently, undividedly, with your whole harmonious being.
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Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch.
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Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.
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Those who seek knowledge, collect something every day. Those who seek the Way, let go of something every day.
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Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course? Can you step back from you own mind and thus understand all things? Giving birth and nourishing, having without possessing, acting with no expectations, leading and not trying to control: this is the supreme virtue.
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Act non-action undertake no undertaking taste the tasteless.
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Kindness in words creates confidence.
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To joy in conquest is to joy in the loss of human life.
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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
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To know yet to think that one does not know is best Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
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