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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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Stillness is the ruler of haste.
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The high must make the low its base.
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That which shrinks must first expand.
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We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it liveable.
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My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me.
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The truly great man dwells on what is real and not what is on the surface.
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If you close your mind in judgements and traffic with desires, your heart will be troubled. If you keep your mind from judging and aren't led by the senses, your heart will find peace.
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Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.
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Without opening your door, you can open your heart to the world. Without looking out your window, you can see the essence of the Tao. The more you know, the less you understand. The Master arrives without leaving, sees the light without looking, achieves without doing a thing.
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But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance; they discard humility, and aim only at being first. Therefore they shall surely perish.
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Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.
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The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.
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A good calculator does not need artificial aids.
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When people do not dread authorities, then a greater dread descends.
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Use the light that is in you to recover your natural clearness of sight.
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The greatest virtue is to follow the Way utterly.
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Displaying riches and titles with pride brings about one's downfall.
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Misery is what happiness rests upon. Happiness is what misery lurks beneath.
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Heaven's Way is like stretching a bow. The high is lowered and the low is raised. Excess is reduced and deficiency is replenished. Heaven's Way reduces excess and replenishes deficiency. People's Way is not so. They reduce the deficient and supply the excessive.
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The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance.
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The hard and stiff are death's companions. The soft and weak are life's companions.
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Because every portion of the body, mind, and spirit yearns for the integration of yin and yang, angelic intercourse is led by the spirit rather than the sexual organs. . . . Where ordinary intercourse unites sex organs with sex organs, angelic cultivation unites spirit with spirit, mind with mind, and every cell of one body with every cell of the other body.
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Can you step back from your own mind and thus understand all things?
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