“Always without desire we must be found,”
― Tao Te Ching
― Tao Te Ching
“When the work is done, and one's name is becoming distinguished, to withdraw into obscurity is the way of Heaven.”
― Tao Te Ching
― Tao Te Ching
“To know that unchanging rule is to be intelligent; not to know it leads to wild movements and evil issues.”
― Tao Te Ching
― Tao Te Ching
“This returning to their root is what we call the state of stillness; and that stillness may be called a reporting that they have fulfilled their appointed end.”
― Tao Te Ching
― Tao Te Ching
“When gold and jade fill the hall, their possessor cannot keep them safe.”
― Tao Te Ching
― Tao Te Ching
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