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Laozi
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Water benefits the ten thousand things and does not oppose them.
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Shape clay into a vessel It is the space within that makes it useful. Cut doors and windows for a room It is the holes which make it useful. Therefore benefit comes from what is there Usefulness from what is not there.
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The new life created by the final integration is self-aware yet without ego, capable of inhabiting a body yet not attached to it, and guided by wisdom rather than emotion. Whole and virtuous, it can never die.
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Abandon learning and there will be no sorrow.
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Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast.
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When taxes are too high, people go hungry. When the government is too intrusive, people lose their spirit. Act for the people's benefit. Trust them leave them alone.
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The men who are great live with that which is substantial, they do not stay with that which is superficial they abide with realities, they do not remain with what is showy. The one they discard, the other they hold.
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He who steals a hook shall be hanged while he who steals the state shall be crowned as prince.
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Practice non-action. Work without doing.
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All action begins in rest... This is the ultimate truth.
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When many people are killed, they should be mourned and lamented. Those who are victorious in war should follow the rites of funerals.
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Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love.
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Great accomplishment seems imperfect, Yet it does not outlive its usefulness. Great fullness seems empty, Yet it cannot be exhausted.
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The separate parts make no carriage.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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Does one scent appeal more than another? Do you prefer this flavor, or that feeling? Is your practice sacred and your work profane? Then your mind is separated: from itself, from oneness, from the Tao.
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When the emperor is crowned or the three dukes are appointed, rather than sending a gift of jade carried by four horses, remain still and offer the Way.
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To attain to the human form must always be a source of joy. And then to undergo continuous transitions, with only the infinite to look forward to: what incomparable bliss is that!
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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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Prepare for the difficult while it is still easy. Deal with the big while it is still small. Difficult undertakings have always started with what easy. Great undertakings always started with what is small. Therefore the sage never strives for the great,And thereby the great is achieved.
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