"Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are."
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"Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many."
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"Act without expectation."
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"Love the whole world as if it were your self; then you will truly care for all things."
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"The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced."
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"Don't impose your will through manipulation of aggressive emotions and actions."
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"Returning to the source is stillness. It is returning to one's fate. Returning to one's fate is eternal."
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"There is no greater fault than sensual indulgence. There is no greater misfortune than malcontent. There is no greater calamity than greed."
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"Intelligent people know others. Enlightened people know themselves."
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"Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. . . . When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course."
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"Not valuing wealth prevents theft."
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"That which offers no resistance can enter where there is no space."
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"That which offers no resistance, overcomes the hardest substances."
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"Stillness overcomes heat."
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"Nurture the spontaneous peaceful life."
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"The Master doesn't seek fulfillment. For only those who are not full are able to be used which brings the feeling of completeness."
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"The great Way is easy, yet people prefer the side paths. Be aware when things are out of balance. Stay centered within the Tao."
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"Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation?"
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"A sage is skilled at helping people without excluding anyone."
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"No disaster is worse than being discontented."
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