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To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.

The words of truth are always paradoxical. To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

Why are the people rebellious? Because the rulers interfere too much. Therefore they are rebellious.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.

Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.

People turn their eyes and ears to him (the sage), and the sage cares for them like his own children.

Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.

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

Weapons are ominous tools. They are abhorred by all creatures. Anyone who follows the Way shuns them.

Whatever is flexible and living will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die.

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

Being a model to the world, eternal virtue will never falter in you, and you return to the boundless.

Those who have hardened, have a covenant with Death. Those who remain gentle are conjoined with Life.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

Open yourself to the truth, then trust in your natural responses, and everything will fall into place.

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

Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong.

All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.

The one who is conscious (in Tao) can't speak. The one who can speak is not conscious (centered in Tao)

The value of teaching without words and accomplishing without action is understood by few in the world.

Things exalted then decay. This is going against the Way. What goes against the Way meets an early end.

Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.

Man is ruled by Earth. Earth is ruled by Heaven. Heaven is ruled by the Way. The Way is ruled by itself.

Returning to the source is stillness. It is returning to one's fate. Returning to one's fate is eternal.

Those who are quiet value the words. When their task is completed, people will say: We did it ourselves.

I am good to people who are good. I am also good to people who are not good. Because Virtue is goodness.

All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry.

The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small.

These possessions of a simpleton being the three I choose and cherish: to care, to be fair, to be humble.

Knowledge of the eternal is all-embracing. To be all-embracing leads to righteousness, which is majestic.

When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it.

Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.

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

A great country is like the lower outlet of a river. It is the world's meeting ground, the world's female.

Complete your task. Seek no reward. Make no claims. Without faltering fully choose to do what you must do.

The way to use life is to do nothing through acting, The way to use life is to do everything through being.

Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering, This is Primal Virtue.

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

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

Live simply and virtuously, true to your nature, drawing no line between what is spiritual and what is not.

Stop leaving and you will arrive, Stop searching and you will see, Stop running away and you will be found.

The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.

The best way to live / is to be like water / For water benefits all things / and goes against none of them.

Hold on to the great image, and the whole world follows, follows unharmed, content and completely at peace.

If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?

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