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The True Person benefits yet expects no reward, does the work and moves on. There is no desire to be considered better than others.
Not-knowing is true knowledge.
Presuming to know is a disease.
First realize that you are sick;
then you can move toward health.
Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love.
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Whoever is capable of knowing when they have had enough will always be satisfied.
Being satisfied with little, you can gain much. Seeking much you will go astray. The wise heeds this precept. If it could be so with all people!
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch.
In ancient times, people said that imperfect moves to becoming perfect. Are these words vain? No! Truly, by gaining Unity you come to Perfection!
If you understand others you are smart.
If you understand yourself you are illuminated.
If you overcome others you are powerful.
If you overcome yourself you have strength.
If you know how to be satisfied you are rich.
If you can act with vigor, you have a will.
If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting.
If you die without loss, you are eternal.
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.
The way to use life is to do nothing through acting, The way to use life is to do everything through being.
Take [preventive] action before things happen. Establish order before disorder has begun.
The sage knows without traveling, perceives without looking, completes without acting.
Truly, only acting without thought of one's life is superior to valuing one's life.
Every being in the universe is an expression of the Tao. It springs into existence, unconscious, perfect, free, takes on a physical body, lets circumstances complete it. That is why every being spontaneously honors the Tao. The Tao gives birth to all beings, nourishes them, maintains them, cares for them, comforts them, protects them, takes them back to itself, creating without possessing, acting without expecting, guiding without interfering. That is why love of the Tao is in the very nature of things.
Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of Tao.
Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course? Can you step back from you own mind and thus understand all things? Giving birth and nourishing, having without possessing, acting with no expectations, leading and not trying to control: this is the supreme virtue.
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Meandering leads to perfection.
