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When there is no desire, all things are at peace

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

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The sage embraces the one, and is an example to the world.

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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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Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.

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When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

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

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The longer you travel, the less you know.

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To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will in the kingdom.

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He does not praise himself - yet he is respectable.

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Of the second-rate leaders people speak respectfully saying, "He has done this, he has done that." Of the first-rate leaders, they do not say this. They say, "We have done it all ourselves."

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The value of teaching without words and accomplishing without action is understood by few in the world.

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He who knows, knows not. He who knows not, knows.

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Virtue in its grandest aspect is neither more nor less than following reason.

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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

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Who can wait quietly until the mud settles? Who can remain still until the moment of action?

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If the sage wants to stand above people, he must speak to them from below. If he wants to lead people, he must follow them from behind.

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If you attach yourself to gross energies - loving this person, hating that clan, rejecting one experience or habitually indulging in another - then you will lead a series of heavy, attached lives. This can go on for a very long and tedious time.

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Empty your mind of all thoughts.

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The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below them. That is why they are able to reign over all the mountain streams.

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