"He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much."
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"Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation."
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"He who knows himself is enlightened."
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"Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it."
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"True words seem false."
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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."
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"Countless words count less than the silent balance between yin and yang"
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"The net of heaven is very wide in its meshes, and yet it misses nothing."
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"Whatever is flexible and living will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die."
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"If you want everything, you first have to give everything up."
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"The mature person perceives the fruitlessness of rigid, external methodologies; Remembering this, he keeps his attitude unstructured at all times and thus is always free to pursue the Integral Way. He studies the teachings of the masters. He dissolves all concepts of duality. He pours himself out in service to others."
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"The best of all teachers is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him."
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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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"Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world."
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"The Tao is infinite, eternal. Why is it eternal? It was never born; thus it can never die. Why is it infinite? It has no desires for itself; thus it is present for all beings. The Master stays behind; that is why she is ahead. She is detached from all things; that is why she is one with them. Because she has let go of herself, she is perfectly fulfilled."
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"A great nation is like a great man:When he makes a mistake, he realizes it.Having realized it, he admits it.Having admitted it, he corrects it.He considers those who point out his faultsas his most benevolent teachers.He thinks of his enemyas the shadow that he himself casts."
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"By following this simple path, you become extraordinary, unfathomable, a being of profound cosmic subtlety. You outlive time and space by realizing the subtle truth of the universe."
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"What resists, persists."
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"The value comes from what is there, but the use comes from what is not there."
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"Yielding is the way of the Tao."
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