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Do not strive for the shine of jade, but clatter like stone.

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A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

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He who is great must make humility his base. He who is high must make lowliness his foundation. Thus, princes and kings in speaking of themselves use the terms "lonely," "friendless," "of small account." Is not this making humility their base?

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When taxes are too high, people go hungry.

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Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity.

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Don't impose your will through manipulation of aggressive emotions and actions.

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The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil.

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The Way is eternal. Until your last day, you are free from peril.

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The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.

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Nature is not anthropomorphic.

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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

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

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When the uncarved wood is split, its parts are put to use. When the sage is put to use, he becomes the head.

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Requite injury with kindness.

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A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly, without any interference of the conscious will. This is a paradigm for non-action: the purest and most effective form of action. The game plays the game; the poem writes the poem; we can't tell the dancer from the dance. It happens when we trust the intelligence of the universe in the same way that an athlete or a dancer trusts the superior intelligence of the body.

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Do nothing, and leave nothing undone. ["Doing nothing" is what happens when the doer disappears, it isn't something that one does or chooses not to do.]

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The Tao is told is not the Tao.

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Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes.

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He does not feel pity for himself - thus he can successfully develop.

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The greatest teacher has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and never worries.

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