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Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.

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A man is born gentle and weak. At death he is hard and stiff.

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I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.

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Yielding is the way of the Tao.

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The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.

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Man is ruled by Earth. Earth is ruled by Heaven. Heaven is ruled by the Way. The Way is ruled by itself.

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Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.

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...The sage, traveling all day, Does not lose sight of his baggage. Though there are beautiful things to be seen, He remains unattached and calm.

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Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.

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These possessions of a simpleton being the three I choose and cherish: to care, to be fair, to be humble.

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The sage knows himself, but does not parade. He cherishes himself, but does not praise himself.

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He who is attached to things will suffer much.

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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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The reason for great distress is the body. Without it, what distress could there be?

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You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow.

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A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant.

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To bear the country's disgrace is to rule the shrines of soil and grain. To bear the country's misfortunes is to be the king of the world.

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The Tao gives birth to One. One gives birth to yin and yang. Yin and yang give birth to all things... The complete whole is the complete whole. So also is any part the complete whole... But forget about understanding and harmonizing and making all things one. The universe is already a harmonious oneness; just realize it.

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Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast.

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Heaven's net is very vast. It is sparsely meshed, yet nothing slips through.

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