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Knowledge studies others, wisdom is self known.

Laozi

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The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery.
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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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To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!
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Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.
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Much knowledge will corrupt the heart,/When partly understood,/And so the people grow too smart,/But neither wise nor good.
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Great, it passes on (in constant flow).
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The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not malign, straight but not severe, bright but not dazzling.
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So the unwanting soul sees what's hidden, and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants.
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In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them in the next they despised them.
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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
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Those who have hardened, have a covenant with Death. Those who remain gentle are conjoined with Life.
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