"The biggest in the world is small in its beginning."
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"Abandon knowledge and your worries are over."
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"Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness."
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"Those who show off do not shine."
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"The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness."
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"If you have really attained wholeness, everything will flock to you."
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"He who accounts all things easy will have many difficulties."
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"Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail."
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". . . learn to value what is important today in the subtle realm rather than what appears desirable tomorrow in the worldly realm."
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"...the more you talk of it, the less you understand."
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"When you find the way/ others will find you./ Passing by on the road/ they will be drawn to your door./ The way that cannot be heard/ will be echoed in your voice./ The way that cannot be seen/ will be reflected in your eyes."
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"What honor can there be without humility? What heights can be reached without being low? The pieces of a chariot are useless unless the work in accordance with the whole A man's life brings nothing unless he lives in accordance with the whole universe Playing one's part in accordance with the universe is true humility So whether you're a gem in the royal court or a stone on the common path If you accept your part with humility the glory of the universe will be yours"
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"Who is unhappy with little, won't be with much; who doesn't appreciate the small won't be able to take care of the large; who doesn't have enough with enough is at the margin or virtue, for the physical body lives from one day to another and if it gets what it really needs, there will be time for meditation, as long as if we try to give it everything it desires, endless will be the task."
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"I am at peace, and people become fair by themselves."
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"(The Tao) is always present and always available. . . . If you are willing to be lived by it, you will see it everywhere, even in the most ordinary things."
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"The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. The more weapons you have, the less secure people will be. The more subsidies you have, the less self reliant people will be."
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"He who knows enough is enough will always have enough."
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"Those who are highly evolved, maintain an undiscriminating perception. Seeing everything, labeling nothing, they maintain their awareness of the Great Oneness. Thus they are supported by it."
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"A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth."
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"All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small."
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