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77: Heaven’s Way
The Way of Creation is like
Drawing a Bow.
Raise it by pressing it,
Lower it by pulling it,
Having overdrawn,
reduce it.
If underdrawn,
add to it.
42: Dao Transforms
Dao engenders Potential.
Potential generates Movement.
Potential and Movement become the Mystery.
The Mystery produces All Things.
72: Loving Oneself
People’s irreverence
leads to the greatest reverence.
They do not grow too familiar with
their abiding.
They do not tire of
their arising.
Verse 26: Noble Virtue
Prudence is the root of ease,
Stillness rules over anxiety.
Verse 1: Body of the Way
Spoken words about the Dao do not say it all.
Nor does any word written convey its essence.
58: Smooth Transformation
In one’s disengaged governance,
their people are like alcohol.
In one’s engaged governance,
their people are absent.
Disaster! Happiness leans on it.
Happiness! Disaster conceals it.