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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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A man is born gentle and weak. At death he is hard and stiff.

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Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.

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Goodness in words creates trust, goodness in thinking creates depth, goodness in giving creates love.

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I have three treasures that I cherish. The first is compassion. The second is moderation. The third is not claiming to be first in the world.

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The softest of stuff in the world, penetrates quickly the hardest, insubstantial, it enters where there is no room.

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If you want to shrink something, you must first allow it to expand. If you want to get rid of something, you must first allow it to flourish. If you want to take something, you must first allow it to be given. This is called the subtler perception of the way things are. The soft overcomes the hard. The slow overcomes the fast. Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.

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Being is born of not being.

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

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The sage wears coarse clothes, concealing jade.

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If you close your mind in judgements and traffic with desires, your heart will be troubled. If you keep your mind from judging and aren't led by the senses, your heart will find peace.

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Use the light to return to clarity.

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Why not simply honor your parents, love your children, help your brothers and sisters, be faithful to your friends, care for your mate with devotion, complete your work cooperatively and joyfully, assume responsibility for problems, practice virtue without first demanding it of others, understand the highest truths yet retain an ordinary manner? That would be true clarity, true simplicity, true mastery.

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He who knows enough is enough will always have enough.

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The most powerful weapon known is the weapon of blessing. Therefore, a clever person relies on it. He wins with peace, not with war.

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A follower of the Way (Tao) loses something each day. Loss after loss until arriving at Non Action (Wu Wei).

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The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root from which it came. Returning to the root is stillness. Through stillness each fulfils its destiny.

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Goodie-goodies are the thieves of virtue.

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How do I become still? By flowing with the stream.

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No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and at last become one with heaven and earth.

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