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== 63. Difficulty ==
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Practice no-action;
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Attend to do-nothing;
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Taste the flavorless,
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Magnify the small,
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Multiply the few,
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Return love for hate.
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Deal with the difficult while it is yet easy;
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Deal with the great while it is yet small;
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The difficult develops naturally from the easy,
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And the great from the small;
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So the sage, by dealing with the small,
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Achieves the great.
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Who finds it easy to promise finds it hard to be trusted;
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Who takes things lightly finds things difficult;
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The sage recognizes difficulty, and so has none.
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-- Original text from the [[Tao Te Ching interpolation]]
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