What stays still is easy to hold; Before there has been an omen it is easy to lay plans. What is tender is easily torn, what is minute is easy to scatter. Deal with things in their state of not-yet-being, put them in order before they have got into confusion. For the tree big as a man's embrace began as a tiny sprout, the tower nine storeys high began with a heap of earth, the journey of a thousand leagues began with what was under the feet.

— Tao Te Ching, Chapter 64

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