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I alone have the mind of a fool, and am all muddled and vague. The people are so smart and bright. While I am just dull and confused.

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The best way to carve is not to split.

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Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

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

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Even the longest journey must begin where you stand.

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Can you be still and look inside?If so, then you know the truth is always available, and always responsive.

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We put thirty spokes to make a wheel: But it is on the hole in the center that the use of the cart hinges. We make a vessel from a lump of clay; But it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful. We make doors and windows for a room; But it is the empty spaces that make the room livable. Thus, while existence has advantages, It is the emptiness that makes it useful.

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There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.

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When bitter enemies make peace, surely some bitterness remains.

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Of all things, none does not revere the Way and honor virtue. Reverence of the Way and honoring virtue were not demanded of them, but it is in their nature.

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Misfortune is the root of good fortune; good fortune gives birth to misfortune.

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By steadily disciplining the animal nature, until it becomes one pointed, it is possible to establish conscious awareness of The Eternal.

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Before healing others, heal yourself

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That which offers no resistance, overcomes the hardest substances.

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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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Tao loves and nourishes all things, but does not dominate it over them.

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Deal with it before it happens. Set things in order before there is confusion.

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When his (the good ruler's) task is accomplished and his work done, The people all say, "It happened to us naturally.

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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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The female always surpasses the male with stillness. In her stillness she is yielding.

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