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My words are easy to understand and easy to perform, Yet no man under heaven knows them or practices them.

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Practice not-doing and everything will fall into place.
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If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.
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The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
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The Eternal generates the One. The One generates the Two. The Two generates the Three. The Three generates all things.
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Seeing the small is called Clarity. Keeping flexible is called Strength. Using the shining Radiance, You enter the Light, Where no harm can come to you. This is called Enlightenment.
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Those who take long steps cannot keep the pace.
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If you attach yourself to gross energies - loving this person, hating that clan, rejecting one experience or habitually indulging in another - then you will lead a series of heavy, attached lives. This can go on for a very long and tedious time.
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To joy in conquest is to joy in the loss of human life.
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Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering, This is Primal Virtue.
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Returning to the source is stillness. It is returning to one's fate. Returning to one's fate is eternal.
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What has not yet emerged is easy to prevent.
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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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A government can be compared to our lungs. Our lungs are best when we don't realize they are helping us breathe. It is when we are constantly aware of our lungs that we know they have come down with an illness.
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Be humble and you will remain entire. The sages do not display themselves, therefore they shine. They do not approve themselves, therefore they are noted. They do not praise themselves, therefore they have merit. They do not glory in themselves, therefore they excel.
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If you never assume importance, you never lose it.
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Perfect kindness acts without thinking of kindness.
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Stop leaving and you will arrive, Stop searching and you will see, Stop running away and you will be found.
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