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Book: Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
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  1. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book

    And in poetry, beauty is no ornament; it is the meaning. It is the truth.
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  2. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book

    Having replaced instinct with language, society, and culture, we are the only species that depends on teaching and learning. We aren't human without them. In them is true power. But are they the occupations of the rich and mighty?
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  3. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book

    Scholarly translations of the Tao Te Ching as a manual for rulers use a vocabulary that emphasizes the uniqueness of the Taoist "sage," his masculinity, his authority. This language is perpetuated, and degraded, in most popular versions. I wanted a Book of the Way accessible to a present-day, unwise, unpowerful, and perhaps unmale reader, not seeking esoteric secrets, but listening for a voice that speaks to the soul. I would like that reader to see why people have loved the book for twenty-five hundred years.
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  4. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book

    Heaven and earthbegin in the unnamed:name's the motherof the ten thousand things.
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  5. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book

    Wealth, status, pride, are their own ruin. To do good, work well, and lie low is the way of the blessing.
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  6. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book

    So the unwanting soulsees what's hidden,and the ever-wanting soulsees only what it wants.
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  7. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book

    The Tao Te Ching is partly in prose, partly in verse; but as we define poetry now, not by rhyme and meter but as a patterned intensity of language, the whole thing is poetry. I wanted to catch that poetry, its terse, strange beauty. Most translations have caught meanings in their net, but prosily, letting the beauty slip through. And in poetry, beauty is no ornament; it is the meaning. It is the truth. We have that on good authority.
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