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    "title": "Chapter 22 — Yielding to Be Whole",
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    "text": "## Chapter 22\n\n\nThe partial becomes complete; the crooked, straight; the empty,\nfull; the worn out, new. He whose (desires) are few gets them; he\nwhose (desires) are many goes astray.\n\nTherefore the sage holds in his embrace the one thing (of\nhumility), and manifests it to all the world. He is free from self-\ndisplay, and therefore he shines; from self-assertion, and therefore\nhe is distinguished; from self-boasting, and therefore his merit is\nacknowledged; from self-complacency, and therefore he acquires\nsuperiority. It is because he is thus free from striving that\ntherefore no one in the world is able to strive with him.\n\nThat saying of the ancients that 'the partial becomes complete' was\nnot vainly spoken:--all real completion is comprehended under it.",
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