"Tao in the world is like a river flowing home to the sea."
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"The real is empty and the empty real"
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"Conclusions are ignorance arrested on the path to less ignorance."
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"Those who of old were good practicers of Tao did not use it to make people bright, but rather used it to make them simple."
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"Those who have compassion when they do battle will be victorious. Those who likewise defend themselves will be safe. Heaven will rescue and protect them with compassion."
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"If a country is governed with tolerance, the people are comfortable and honest. If a country is governed with repression, the people are depressed and crafty. When the will to power is in charge, the higher the ideals, the lower the results. Try to make people happy, and you lay the groundwork for misery. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice. Thus the Master is content to serve as an example and not to impose her will. She is pointed, but doesn't pierce. Straightforward, but supple. Radiant, but easy on the eyes."
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"Do not make them (people) weary at their work. If you do not make them weary, they will not be weary of you."
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"He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them."
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"The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in."
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"My words are easy to understand and easy to perform, Yet no man under heaven knows them or practices them."
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"Throw away sacredness and wisdom and people will be one hundred times happier."
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"The gentlest thing in the world overcomes the hardest thing in the world. That which has no substance enters where there is no space. This shows the value of non-action. Teaching without words, performing without actions: that is the Master's way."
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"In harmony with the Tao, the sky is clear and spacious, the earth is solid and full, all creature flourish together, content with the way they are, endlessly repeating themselves, endlessly renewed. When man interferes with the Tao, the sky becomes filthy, the earth becomes depleted, the equilibrium crumbles, creatures become extinct. The Master views the parts with compassion, because he understands the whole. His constant practice is humility. He doesn't glitter like a jewel but lets himself be shaped by the Tao, as rugged and common as stone."
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"The Way of Tao is this: It strives not, but conquers; It speaks not, but all is made clear; It summons not, but its house is crowded; It contrives not, but the design is perfect."
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"Heaven and Earth last for ever. Why do Heaven and Earth last for ever? They are unborn, so ever living. The sage stays behind, thus he is ahead. He is detached, thus at one with all. Through selfless action, he attains fulfillment."
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"People are hard to govern. The rulers interfere with too much. That is why people are hard to govern."
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"The one who is filled by virtue is like a newborn baby."
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"Nature does not have to insist."
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"Do not fear the aging of the body for it is the body's way of seeking the root."
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"Sages do not accumulate for themselves. The more they give to others, the more they possess of their own. The way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure."
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