“competitiveness and desire for power are the beginnings of beckoning disaster in business and social relations.”

Chapters: 9. Know When to Stop

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“Getting out of danger requires that one believe it is dangerous – belief rules the mind… If there is truthfulness, then the mind develops.”

Chapters: 80. A Golden Age

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“Great people, while being very wise, appear to be ignorant; while being very skillful, they appear inept… they cannot be influenced by circumstances… they are not concerned with externals… they find good fortune wherever they are.”

Chapters: 41. Distilled Life

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“If they hastily seek consummation and merely attain a moment's pleasure; not only will the woman not be happy, neither will the man and the relationship will surely fail in the long run.”

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“Knowledge of the ingredients without knowledge of the process cannot accomplish the Tao.”

Chapters: 56. One with the Dust

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“looking upon others and oneself as the same there will be no discordant action.”

Chapters: 14. Finding and Following the Formless Form

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“Nurturing firmness with flexibility, solidity with openness, from striving enter into nonstriving, from effort into spontaneity and practice introspection in action letting true yin and true yang naturally unite.”

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“Practice contemplation in action by combining flexibility with firmness, solidity with openness, and returning the nonexistent to existence.”

Chapters: 12. This Over That

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“the science of fulfilling nature and comprehending life is the great work of appropriating yin and yang, taking over evolution, reversing the process of life and death”

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“the sprouts of living potential grow when the energies of yin and yang commune.”

Chapters: 42. Children of the Way

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“The wise support others with warmth, a warmth that requires genuine practice, true application barring insult and attack, bearing all difficulty, hardship, sickness, and calamity, just as the earth supports the mountains.”

Chapters: 25. The Mother of All Things

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“Those whose main concern is food and clothing are untrustworthy in an impasse… complaining against heaven and blaming people.”

Chapters: 8. Like Water

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“Though near to reality by nature, people become estranged from it by habit—descending lower and lower by daily repetition, they fall into a state of ignorant obstinacy and do not know how to stop.”

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“True yin and true yang naturally form a couple and from striving enter into nonstriving, from effort arrive at spontaneity completely realizing essence and arriving at the true meaning of life.”

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“Use unfortunate events to polish oneself, to find increase within reduction, to change a faulty beginning into a blameless end.”

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“When feeling returns to essence, punishment turns into merit. Reverting to the original, going back to the fundamental, there is a return to correctness.”

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“When the mind clearly understand true and false, it awaits the right time to act with strength and harmony, serene and without pressure.”

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“Wine and sex distract from reality, the lure of wealth deranges our nature, emotions and desires arise in a tangle and we become lost in confusion.”

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