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

Laozi

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The most straight seems curved.
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The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil.
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Abandon benevolence, discard duty, and people will return to the family ties.
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Trustable words are not beautiful beautiful words are not trustable.
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Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering, This is Primal Virtue.
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Can you open and close the gate of Heaven and act like a woman?
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Because he is a living divinity, when he acts, the universe acts.
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When you accept yourself, the Universe accepts you.
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How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
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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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. . . integral wisdom involves a direct participation in every moment: the observer and the observed are dissolved in the light of pure awareness, and no mental concepts or attitudes are present to dim that light.
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Tao loves and nourishes all things, but does not dominate it over them.
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Do nothing, and leave nothing undone. [Doing nothing is what happens when the doer disappears, it isn't something that one does or chooses not to do.]
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Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on a counterfeit nature.
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Every step is on the path.
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Those who make their living by collecting taxes cause the people to starve when the people starve, the tax collectors, having no one to tax, starve also
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Justice has long arm.
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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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Gentleness brings victory to him who attacks, and safety to him who defends. Those whom Heaven would save, it fences round with gentleness.
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