Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of …

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Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of Tao. ✨ Laozi, Sepharial (1904). The Book of the Simple Way of Laotze: A New Translation from the Text of the Tao-teh-king
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