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

Laozi

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Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.
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When you extend your goodwill in every direction, regardless of circumstances, you begin to see that we are all one.
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When you accept yourself, the Universe accepts you.
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Use your light, but dim your brightness.
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The soft and weak can overcome the hard and strong.
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Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.
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He who walks on tip-toe does not walk on solid ground.
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The great Way is all-pervading. It reaches to the left and to the right. All things depend on it with their existence. Still it demands no obedience.
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Although there are weapons for tens and hundreds of soldiers, they will not be used.
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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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The grandest virtue seems deficient.
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