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Excerpt from the Tao Te Ching, trans. Derek Lin, from
www.Taoism.net and Tao Te Ching: Annotated & Explained,
SkyLight Paths, 2006. Reprinted by permission.

Excerpt from “Carmel Point” by Robinson Jeffers,
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