Tao Te Ching

The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
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On Nature

By Parmenides

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“all these things are but the names which mortals have given, believing them, to be true”

Chapters: 1. The Unnamed

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“All things travel in opposite directions!”

Chapters: 22. Heaven's Door

Themes: Paradox

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“How could what is real end? How could it have been created? For if it came into being, it would have had to come from nothing. But nothing is not. Therefore there is no birth or death.”

Chapters: 6. The Source

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“Learn the unshaken heart of persuasive truth. Don’t believe status quo opinions in which there is no truth at all.”

Chapters: 65. Simplicity: the Hidden Power of Goodness

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“People have lost sight of the truth by coming to believe in two forms: one with the fire of heaven and light, one the opposite as a dark, heavy night. But in truth, everything at the same time is full of both light and dark, both equal.”

Chapters: 22. Heaven's Door

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“Reality is now, all at once, one and continuous, not divisible, never any more or less of it and nothing that could stop it holding together but always alike and full of what is.”

Chapters: 12. This Over That

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“reality is unborn and imperishable, whole, unique, immovable and without end it was not in the past, not yet shall it be, since it now is, altogether, one and continuous.”

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Themes: Reality

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“the daughters of the Sun, hasting to convey me into the light, threw back their veils”

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Themes: Victory

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“to be aware and to be are the same.”

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