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Only he who does not seek to be ahead of others is capable of living in harmony with everyone.
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Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.
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The Tao gives birth to One. One gives birth to yin and yang. Yin and yang give birth to all things... The complete whole is the complete whole. So also is any part the complete whole... But forget about understanding and harmonizing and making all things one. The universe is already a harmonious oneness just realize it.
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There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.
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The highest tone is hard to hear.
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Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution.
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If I have even just a little sense, I will walk on the main road and my only fear will be of straying from it. Keeping to the main road is easy, But people love to be sidetracked.
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Peace and quiet are preferred. Victory should not be praised.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.
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In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.
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True power is stillness within motion.
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Can you be still and look inside?If so, then you know the truth is always available, and always responsive.
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The rigid and big belong below. The soft and weak belong above.
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At the center of your being you have the answer you know who you are and you know what you want.
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He who regards the world as he does the fortune of his own body can govern the world. He who loves the world as he does his own body can be entrusted with the world.
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To have enough of enough is always enough.
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When cleverness emerges There is great hypocrisy.
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Use the light that is in you to recover your natural clearness of sight
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The Tao's principle is spontaneity.
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