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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

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As for the "proper way:" it is the beginning of disorder.

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When the hares have all been caught, the hunting dogs are cooked.

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Conduct your triumph as a funeral.

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Those who know do not speak; Those who speak do not know. Stop up the openings, Close down the doors, Rub off the sharp edges. Unravel all confusion. Harmonize the light, Give up contention: This is called finding the unity of life.

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People take death lightly. They expect too much of life. That is why people take death lightly.

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Dualistic thinking is a sickness.

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Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of happiness.

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If you overesteem great men, people become powerless. If you overvalue possessions, people begin to steal. The Master leads by emptying people's minds and filling their cores, by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve. He helps people lose everything they know, everything they desire, and creates confusion in those who think that they know. Practice not-doing, and everything will fall into place.

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The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.

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Those who praise victory relish manslaughter. Those who relish manslaughter cannot reach their goals in the world.

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Other people have more than they need, I alone seem wanting.

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It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in silence in which at last we begin to hear what we are meant to be.

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He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant.

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To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.

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The sage is sharp but does not cut, pointed but does not pierce, forthright but does not offend, bright but does not dazzle.

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Who is there who can make muddy waters clear? But if allowed to remain still, it will gradually clear itself.

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The value of actions lies in their timing.

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Do not imagine that an integral being has the ambition of enlightening the unaware or raising worldly people to the divine realm. To her, there is no self and other, and hence no one to be raised; no heaven and hell, and hence no destination.

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Be who you are, and go the whole way.

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