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Governing a large state is like boiling a small fish.

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

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True power is stillness within motion.

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Stop thinking, and end your problems.

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When you accurately perceive the fluidity of things, you can also begin to perceive the constancy behind them: the creative, transformative, boundless, immutable Tao.

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Those who die without being forgotten get longevity.

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What has no substance can penetrate what has no opening.

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From What-is all the world of things was born But What-is sprang in turn from What-is-not.

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The forceful and violent will not die from natural causes.

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The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion.

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Be empty. Be still. Just watch everything come and go. This is the way of Nature.

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There is a big misunderstanding about the idea of naturalness. Most people who come to us believing in some freedom or naturalness, but their understanding is what we call [heretical naturalness] ... a kind of "let-alone policy" or sloppiness... For a plant or stone to be natural is no problem. But for us there is some problem, indeed a big problem. To be natural is something we must work on.

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The high must make the low its base.

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It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

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The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

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Greed is costly. Assembled fortunes are lost.

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To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.

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The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.

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Can you let go of words and ideas, attitudes and expectations? If so, then the Tao will loom into view.

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The tree which needs two arms to span its girth sprang from the tiniest shoot. Yon tower, nine stories high, rose from a little mound of earth. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

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