"When family ties are disturbed, devoted children arise."
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"An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing."
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"Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle to true attainment. Therefore these states are never achieved by those who covet them; rather, they are the reward of the virtuous."
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"Instead of being afraid of death, we should try to awake to life; and the only death we should escape from is to forget the presence of God into us."
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"The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice."
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"When the highest type of people hear Tao (Truth), they diligently practice it. When the average type of people hear Tao, they half believe in it. When the lowest type of people hear Tao, they laugh at it. If they did not laugh, it would not be Tao."
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"Clay is molded to form a cup, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the cup depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a room, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the room depends. Therefore turn being into advantage, and turn non-being into utility."
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"The wise trusts not only to his physical eyes - thus he can see clearly."
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"Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion."
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"Prepare for the difficult while it is still easy. Deal with the big while it is still small. Difficult undertakings have always started with what easy. Great undertakings always started with what is small. Therefore the sage never strives for the great,And thereby the great is achieved."
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"We go from birth to death. Three out of ten follow life. Three out of ten follow death. People who rush from birth to death are also three out of ten. Why is that so? Because they want to make too much of life."
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"The words of truth are always paradoxical. To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders."
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"There is no greater crime than desire."
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"All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being."
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"Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving."
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"The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root from which it came. Returning to the root is stillness. Through stillness each fulfils its destiny."
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"The sage attends to the belly, and not to what he sees."
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"Fail to honor people, they fail to honor you."
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"Abandon fancy theologies and imaginary ideas and do some ordinary daily work... {Engage in this work with} unswerving kindness and unending patience."
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"When good thing are accomplished, it does not claim (or name) them. This is Te, which is close in meaning to power or virtue. It is something within a person, and it is enhanced by following the Tao, or 'that from which nothing can deviate'."
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