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Tao Te Ching Excerpt Verse 61:

A great county is like the lowland,
toward which all streams flow...

The feminine wins over the masculine with stillness ...

So if a great counter lowers itself before a small one,
it wins with friendship and trust.

If a small country lowers itself before a great one,
it will also win over that great country.

The one wins by stooping;
the other by remaining low.

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Tao Te Ching Excerpt Verse 60:

... like frying a small fish,
you can spoil anything with too much poking ...

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Tao Te Ching Excerpt Verse 59:

... serving nature ... thrift ... moderation...

Restraint begins with giving up one's own ideas ...

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Tao Te Ching Excerpt Verse 58:

... The master is content to serve as an example ...

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Tao Te Ching Excerpt Verse 57:

Take no action & people are reformed.
Enjoy peace & people become honest.
Do nothing & people become rich.
Keep from imposing on people & they become themselves.

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Tao Te Ching Excerpt Verse 56

Those who know do not talk.
Those who talk do not know...

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Tao Te Ching Excerpt Verse 55:

He who is in harmony with the Tao,
is like a new born child...

Bones are weak,
Muscles are soft,
yet is grip is firm.

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Tao Te Ching Excerpt Verse 54:

Whoever is planted in the Tao,
will not be up rooted.

Whoever embraces the Tao,
will not slip away.

Generations honor generations endlessly ...

The Tao is everywhere;
It has become everything.
To truly see it,
See it as it is ...

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Tao Te Ching Excerpt Verse 53:

If I have even just a little sense,
I should walk The Great Way,
and my only fear would be straying...

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Tao Te Ching Excerpt Verse 52:

... Keep your mouth shut,
guard the senses,
and life is ever full...

Seeing the small is called clarity;
Keeping flexible is called strength...

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Tao Te Ching Excerpt Verse 51:

The Way connect all living being to their source.
It springs into existence unconscious, perfect, free...

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Tao Te Ching Excerpt Verse 50:

Between bith and death
Three in ten are followers of life;
Three in ten are followers of death.
And those just passing from birth to death
also number three in ten.

Why is this so?
Because they grasp at life,
and cling to this impermanent world.

But there is one in ten,
They say,
So sure of life,
That tigers & wild beasts keep away.
Weapons can not harm him;
Rhinos have no place to gourde him;
Tigers claws have no place to pierce;
Soldiers have no place to thrust their spears.

Why is this so?
Because he dwells in that place,
Where death cannot enter.

Realize your essence,
And you will witness,
The end without end.

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Tao Te Ching Excerpt Verse 49:

The sage has no fixed mind;
He is aware of the needs of others.
Those who are good he treats with goodness.
Those who are bad he also treats with goodness,
Because the nature of his being is good.

He is kind to the kind.
He is also kind to the unkind.
Because the nature of his being is kindness.

He is faithful the the faithful;
He is also faithful to the unfaithful.

The sage lives in harmony with all below heaven.
He sees everything as his own self;
he loves everyone as his own child.
All people are drawn to him.
He is as a child.