"Everything will settle in its own place automatically."
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"Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes the hard; the gentle overcomes the rigid. Everyone knows this is true, but few can put it into practice. Therefore the Master remains serene in the midst of sorrow. Evil cannot enter his heart. Because he has given up helping, he is people's greatest help. True words seem paradoxical."
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"Use the Light that dwells within you to regain your natural clarity of sight."
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"The things that have acquired unity are these: Heaven by unity has become clear; Earth by unity has become steady; The Spirit by unity has become spiritual; The Valley by unity has become full; All things by unity have come into existence."
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"That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few."
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"The most straight seems curved."
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"First, we must do our own personal work, then we tend the necessary work of our family, then our community, then the world."
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"The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes."
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"Peace is our natural state of being."
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"Harmony is called the eternal. Knowing the eternal is called clarity."
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"A sound man is good at salvage, at seeing nothing is lost"
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"Those who know when to halt are unharmed."
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"A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done."
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"Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength."
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"The most eloquent seems to stutter."
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"The sage regards things as difficult, and thereby avoids difficulty."
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"Use your own light and return to the source of light. This is called practicing eternity."
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"Why not simply honor your parents, love your children, help your brothers and sisters, be faithful to your friends, care for your mate with devotion, complete your work cooperatively and joyfully, assume responsibility for problems, practice virtue without first demanding it of others, understand the highest truths yet retain an ordinary manner? That would be true clarity, true simplicity, true mastery."
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"Those who would take over the earth and shape it to their will, never, I notice succeed."
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"Without going outside, you may know the whole world, without looking through the window, you may see the ways of heaven. The farther you go, the less you know. Thus the sage knows without traveling; he sees without looking; he works without doing."
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