Seeing the small is called Clarity. Keeping flexible is called Strength. Using the shining Radiance, You enter the Light, Where no harm can come to you. This is called Enlightenment.
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.
The sturdiest virtue seems fragile.
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Once you arrive {at a spontaneous awareness of the Great Oneness}, remember: it isn't necessary to struggle to maintain unity with it. All you have to do is participate in it.
The sage regards things as difficult, and thereby avoids difficulty.
Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.
When everyone in the world sees beauty, then ugly exists.
The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery.
Abandon wisdom, discard knowledge, and people will benefit a hundredfold.
Things exalted then decay. This is going against the Way. What goes against the Way meets an early end.
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.
Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.
The one who can dissolve her mind will suddenly discover the Tao at her feet.
Reputation should be neither sought nor avoided.
The Great Vessel takes long to complete.
The superior student listens to the Way and follows it closely. The average student listens to the Way and follows some and some not. The lesser student listens to the Way and laughs out loud. If there were no laughter it would not be the Way.
Greed is costly. Assembled fortunes are lost.
Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.
The farther you go, the less you know.
The Tao doesn't take sides; it gives birth to both good and evil. The Master doesn't take sides; she welcomes both saints and sinners. The Tao is like a bellows: it is empty yet infinitely capable. The more you use it, the more it produces; the more you talk of it, the less you understand. Hold on to the center.
My own words are not the medicine, but a prescription; not the destination, but a map to help you reach it. When you get there, quiet your mind and close your mouth. Don't analyze the Tao. Strive instead to live it: silently, undividedly, with your whole harmonious being.
The great Way is very straight, but people prefer to deviate.
Take [preventive] action before things happen. Establish order before disorder has begun.
If people are not afraid of dying, why threaten them with death?
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