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If you want to know me, look inside your heart.

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He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant.
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Those who of old were good practicers of Tao did not use it to make people bright, but rather used it to make them simple.
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They can see their neighbors. Roosters and dogs can be heard from there. Still, they will age and die without visiting one another.
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One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
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The mature person perceives the fruitlessness of rigid, external methodologies.
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Although most people spend their entire lives following this biological impulse (i.e. the sex drive), it is only a tiny portion of our beings. . . . If we remain obsessed with seeds and eggs, we are married to the fertile reproductive valley of the Mysterious Mother but not to her immeasurable heart and all-knowing mind.
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The truly wise are content to be last. They are, therefore, first. They are indifferent to themselves. They are, therefore self-confident.
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The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.
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The Way to Heaven has no favorites. It is always with the good man.
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The one who is filled by virtue is like a newborn baby.
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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 people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?
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In ancient times, people said that imperfect moves to becoming perfect. Are these words vain? No! Truly, by gaining Unity you come to Perfection!
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The Way begets one one begets two two begets three three begets the myriad creatures.
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Tao loves and nourishes all things, but does not dominate it over them.
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The liberation cannot be reached but by means of the perception of the identity of the individual spirit with the universal spirit.
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Returning to the source is serenity.
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If Heaven were not clear it might rend. If Earth were not firm it might crumble.
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To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something
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