Tao Te Ching's Essay 'No One Has Control'

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No One Has Control Through suffering times several Chinese artists, including calligraphers, painters, and poets have used a fundamental text, Tao Te Ching for both philosophical and religious Taoism as a source of inspiration. The inspirational scriptures within the text influenced not only Taoism but Legalism, Confucianism, and Buddhism and have even become the most translated works in world literature. While reading the Tao Te Ching looking for inspiration before I graduate I particularly resonated with Chapter 29:
Conquering the world and changing it,
I do not think it can succeed.
The world is a sacred vessel that cannot be changed.
He who changes it will destroy it.
He who seizes it will lose it.

So, among all things,
Some lead

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