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Tao Te Ching
Art of Worldly Wisdom
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Tao Te Ching
The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
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Chapters
1 - 10
1. The Unnamed
2. The Wordless Teachings
3. Weak Wishes, Strong Bones
4. The Father of All Things
5. Christmas Trees
6. The Source
7. Lose Yourself, Gain Your Soul
8. Like Water
9. Know When to Stop
10. The Power of Goodness
11 - 20
11. Appreciating Emptiness
12. This Over That
13. Honor and Disgrace
14. Finding and Following the Formless Form
15. Inscrutability
16. Returning to the Root, Meditation
17. True Leaders
18. The Sick Society
19. All Methods Become Obstacles
20. Unconventional Mind
21 - 30
21. Following Empty Heart
22. Heaven's Door
23. Nothing and Not
24. Unnecessary Baggage
25. The Mother of All Things
26. The Still Rule the Restless
27. No Trace
28. Turning Back
29. Not Doing
30. No War
31 - 40
31. Victory Funeral
32. Uncontrived Awareness
33. Know Yourself
34. An Unmoored Boat
35. The Power of Goodness
36. The Small, Dark Light
37. Nameless Simplicity
38. Fruit Over Flowers
39. Oneness
40. Returning
41 - 50
41. Distilled Life
42. Children of the Way
43. No Effort, No Trace
44. Fame and Fortune
45. Complete Perfection
46. Enough
47. Effortless Success
48. Unlearning
49. No Set Mind
50. Claws and Swords
51 - 60
51. Mysterious Goodness
52. Cultivating the Changeless
53. Shameless Thieves
54. Planting Well
55. Forever Young
56. One with the Dust
57. Wu Wei
58. Goals Without Means
59. The Gardening of Spirit
60. Less is More
61 - 70
61. Lying Low
62. Basic Goodness
63. Easy as Hard
64. Ordinary Mind
65. Simplicity: the Hidden Power of Goodness
66. Go Low
67. Three Treasures
68. Joining Heaven & Earth
69. No Enemy
70. Inscrutable
71 - 81
71. Sick of Sickness
72. Helpful Fear
73. Heaven’s Net
74. The Great Executioner
75. Greed
76. The Soft and Flexible
77. Stringing a Bow
78. Water
79. No Demands
80. A Golden Age
81. Journey Without Goal
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“Patience makes lighter
What sorrow may not heal.”
—
Horace
65 – 8 BCE
from
Odes (23 BCE)
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Patience
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