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- Hold on to the center and make up your mind to rejoice in this paradise called life.
- Do not conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance. Thorns spring up when an army passes. Years of misery follow a great…
- If you want everything, you first have to give everything up.
- Build up virtue, and you master all.
- The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
- Give up learning, and put an end to your troubles.
- The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, counting prayer beads no more sacred than simply breathing. . . .…
- So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness;…
- Other people are joyous, like on the feast of the ox, like on the way up to the terrace in the spring. I alone am…
- 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 Master gives himself up to whatever the moment brings. He knows that he is going to die, and her has nothing left to hold…
- What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.
- If you want to be given everything, give everything up.
- Is not the action of nature like the stretching of a bow? The high, it pulls down; the low, it lifts up; It takes from…
- Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know. Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your…
- As it acts in the world, the Tao is like the bending of a bow. The top is bent downward; the bottom is bent up.…
- When Simplicity is broken up, it is made into instruments. Evolved individuals who employ them, are made into leaders. In this way, the Great System…
- Having reached a high level of realization (or having accomplished anything in life), don't get excited or puffed up with pride but remain calm, humble,…
- The Tao is like a well; used but never used up.
- When the ancient Masters said, "If you want to be given everything, give everything up," they weren't using empty phrases. Only in being lived by…
- Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have no vexation. But…
- If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
- Great acts are made up of small deeds.
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