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If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.
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How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
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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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From What-is all the world of things was born But What-is sprang in turn from What-is-not.
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There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.
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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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If you tell me, I will listen. If you show me, I will see. If you let me experience, I will learn!
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The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.
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A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip A terrace nine stories high rises from level earth A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.
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Let people return to making knots on ropes, instead of writing.
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My own words are not the medicine, but a prescription not the destination, but a map to help you reach it. When you get there, quiet your mind and close your mouth. Don't analyze the Tao. Strive instead to live it: silently, undividedly, with your whole harmonious being.
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Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself.
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