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The most able seems clumsy.
Laozi
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Use your light, but dim your brightness.
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So the unwanting soul sees what's hidden, and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants.
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If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?
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If you really want everything, then give up everything.
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People aren't against you they are for themselves. The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later. He who conquers others is strong, he who conquers himself is mighty.
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We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable. We work with being, but non-being is what we use.
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Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
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