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Nameless Simplicity

"The Way is ever without action, Yet nothing is left undone. If princes and kings can abide by this, All things will form themselves. If they form themselves and desires arise, I subdue them with nameless simplicity. Nameless simplicity will indeed free them from desires. Without desire there is stillness, And the world settles by itself."

Author

Lao Tzu

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English

"The Way is ever without action, Yet nothing is left undone. If princes and kings can abide by this, All things will form themselves. If they form themselves and desires arise, I subdue them with nameless simplicity. Nameless simplicity will indeed free them from desires. Without desire there is stillness, And the world settles by itself."

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