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

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Having reached a high level of realization (or having accomplished anything in life), don't get excited or puffed up with pride but remain calm, humble, and in "perfect equanimity" if you want to continue in this deep state of consciousness.

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. . . These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife, always chipping away at the Tao, trying to render it graspable and manageable. But that which is beyond form is ungraspable, and that which is beyond knowing is unmanageable. There is, however, this consolation: She who lets go of the knife will find the Tao at her fingertips.

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Kindness in giving creates love.

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Give up learning, and put an end to your troubles.

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Health is the greatest possession.

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The highest benevolence acts without purpose.

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To know and not to do is not yet to know.

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The sage's Way is to act and not to contend.

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Build up virtue, and you master all.

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My words are easy to understand and easy to perform, Yet no man under heaven knows them or practices them.

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Other people are joyous, like on the feast of the ox, like on the way up to the terrace in the spring. I alone am inert, giving no sign, like a newborn baby who has not learned to smile.

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Confidence is the greatest friend.

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The reason for great distress is the body. Without it, what distress could there be?

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People are born soft and weak. They die hard and stiff.

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Intellectual knowledge exists in and of the brain. Because the brain is part of the body, which must one day expire, this collection of facts, however large and impressive, will expire as well. {But spiritual insight transcends death.}

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Searching for precious goods leads astray.

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People are hard to govern. The rulers interfere with too much. That is why people are hard to govern.

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Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

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The Way is empty, yet inexhaustible, like an abyss!

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