“Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accor...”
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Dao de Jing
Deftly introduced and enriched by the remarkable ink paintings of Stephen Addiss, this new translation of Tao Te Ching captures the terse and enigmatic beauty of the ancient original while resisting the tendency toward interpretive paraphrase found in many other editions. Along with the translation of the complete work, Lombardo and Addiss provide the reader with a measure of interaction with the Chinese text found in no other edition, by furnishing one or more key lines from the original Chinese for each of the eighty-one sections, together with a transliteration of the Chinese characters. The appearance and sounds of the Chinese character displayed, enhance the reader's appreciation of how the Chinese text works and feels and the many different ways it can be translated into English.
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Lao-Tzu
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“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”
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“A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”
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“Love is a decision - not an emotion!”
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“When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad.”
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“He who is in harmony with the Tao is like a newborn child. Its bones are soft, its muscles are weak, but its grip is powerful. It doesn't know about the union of male and female, yet its pen...”
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“They mingle their life with the world, they mix their mind up with the world. Ordinary people look after them. Wise souls are children.”
“Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.”
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“So wise souls, leaving self behind move forward, and setting self aside stay centered. Why let the self go? To keep what the soul needs.”
“If you understand others you are smart. If you understand yourself you are illuminated. If you overcome others you are powerful. If you overcome yourself you have strength. If you know how t...”
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“The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth. The named is the mother of ten thousan...”
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“The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
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“The heart that gives, gathers.”
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“He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.”
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“If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.”
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“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”
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