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“The one who is good teaches the one who is bad. The good is the teacher. The bad is the raw material used by the teacher. The teacher cannot teach without the student. The student cannot learn without the teacher. You can’t have one without the other.”
― R. Joseph Owles, Everyone’s Tao Te Ching: The Tao Te Ching for Those of Us Who Just Want to Find the Way

“Te is the manifestation of Tao. The power of Tao is in Its action. To cultivate Te, or power, is to live in accordance with Tao.”
― R. Joseph Owles, Everyone’s Tao Te Ching: The Tao Te Ching for Those of Us Who Just Want to Find the Way