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== 63. Difficulty ==

 Practice no-action;
 Attend to do-nothing;
 Taste the flavorless,
 Magnify the small, 
 Multiply the few,
 Return love for hate.

 Deal with the difficult while it is yet easy;
 Deal with the great while it is yet small;

 The difficult develops naturally from the easy,
 And the great from the small;
 So the sage, by dealing with the small,
 Achieves the great.

 Who finds it easy to promise finds it hard to be trusted;
 Who takes things lightly finds things difficult;
 The sage recognizes difficulty, and so has none.

-- Original text from the [[Tao Te Ching interpolation]]