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All-pervading is the Great Tao!
It may be found on the left
hand and on the right.
All things depend on it for their production, which it gives
to
them, not one refusing obedience to it. When its work is
accomplished, it does not claim the name of having done
it.
It
clothes
all things as with a garment,
and makes no assumption of being
their
lord;--it may be named in the smallest things. All things
return (to their root and disappear), and do not know that it
is it
which presides over their doing so;--it may be named in the greatest
things.
Hence the
sage is able (in the same way) to accomplish his great
achievements. It is through his not making himself great that he
can
accomplish them.
