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Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish - don't overdo it.
Laozi
As it acts in the world, the Tao is like the bending of a bow. The top is bent downward the bottom is bent up. It adjusts excess and deficiency so that there is perfect balance.
Laozi
Let the country be small, and the inhabitants few.
Laozi
The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.
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The Tao which you know is not the eternal Tao
Laozi
Good Government is not intrusive the people are hardly aware of it the next best is felt yet loved then comes that which is known and feared the worst government is hated.
Laozi
The universe is deathless Is deathless because, having no finite self, it stays infinite. A sound man by not advancing himself stays the further ahead of himself, By not confining himself to himself sustains himself outside himself: By never being an end in himself he endlessly becomes himself.
Laozi
Those who have compassion when they do battle will be victorious. Those who likewise defend themselves will be safe. Heaven will rescue and protect them with compassion.
Laozi
It is the child that sees the primordial secret in Nature and it is the child of ourselves we return to. The child within us is simple and daring enough to live the Secret.
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Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.
Laozi
The very highest is barely known. Then comes that which people know and love, Then that which is feared, Then that which is despised. Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.
Laozi
Searching for precious goods leads astray.
Laozi
All men desire to free themselves solely from death they do not know how to free themselves from life.
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A sound man is good at salvage, at seeing nothing is lost
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We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable. We work with being, but non-being is what we use.
Laozi
To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
Laozi
The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors. It is through this that they suffer famine.
Laozi
If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?
Laozi
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.
Laozi
To lead people, walk behind them.
Laozi
