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No disaster is worse than being discontented.

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When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.

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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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Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.

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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 what is in excess In order to make good of what is deficient. Who can take what they have in excess and offer it to others?

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Who can enjoy enlightenment and remain indifferent to suffering in the world? This is not in keeping with the Way. Only those who increase their service along with their understanding can be called men and women of Tao.

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From caring comes courage.

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Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony.

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The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

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For one gains by losing And loses by gaining.

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The most complete seems lacking. Yet in use it is not exhausted.

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Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

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The farther you go, the less you know.

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A government can be compared to our lungs. Our lungs are best when we don't realize they are helping us breathe. It is when we are constantly aware of our lungs that we know they have come down with an illness.

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The best way to carve is not to split.

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Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion.

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

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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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It is better not to make merit a matter of reward Lest people conspire and contend.

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