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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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Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.
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When many people are killed, they should be mourned and lamented. Those who are victorious in war should follow the rites of funerals.
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The grandest virtue seems deficient.
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Because he is a living divinity, when he acts, the universe acts.
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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 Content with what you have rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
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Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
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The natural laws of the universe are inviolable... what you say and do determines what happens in your life... You are the master of your life and death. What you do is what you are.
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. . . the integral being is attached to nothing and can relate to everyone with an unstructured attitude. Because of this, her very existence benefits all things.
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Who can wait in stillness while the mud settles?
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At the center of your being you have the answer you know who you are and you know what you want.
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When the student is ready the teacher will appear.
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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.
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Moderation means prevention. Prevention means achieving much virtue.
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Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone.
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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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