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Laozi Quotes: If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession.
         

If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession.


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This page presents the quote "If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession.". Author of this quote is Laozi. This quote is about seeking, taoism, tao te ching, wisdom, possession,.