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If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

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Ever desireless, one can see the mystery. Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations. These two spring from the same source but differ in name; this appears as darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gate to all mystery.

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Intelligent people know others. Enlightened people know themselves.

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Man, when living, is soft and tender; when dead, he is hard and tough. All animals and plants when living are tender and delicate; when dead they become withered and dry. Therefore it is said: the hard and tough are parts of death; the soft and tender are parts of life.

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

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The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms.

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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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Give up learning, and put an end to your troubles.

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The Way is the source of all things, good people's treasure and bad people's refuge.

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Spokes unite in the hub of a wheel.

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Although most people spend their entire lives following this biological impulse (i.e. the sex drive), it is only a tiny portion of our beings. . . . If we remain obsessed with seeds and eggs, we are married to the fertile reproductive valley of the Mysterious Mother but not to her immeasurable heart and all-knowing mind.

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Kindness in giving creates love.

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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 open your mouth, or become inquisitive, and you will be in trouble all your life long.

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He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.

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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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Develop the strength of a man, but live as gently as a woman

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When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear. When the body's intelligence declines, cleverness and knowledge step forth. When there is no peace in the family, filial piety begins. When the country falls into chaos, patriotism is born.

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The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be. The more laws are promulgated, the more thieves and bandits there will be.

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Abandon wisdom, discard knowledge, and people will benefit a hundredfold.

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The grandest virtue seems deficient.

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