下降
    xiajiang
    decline

    减低
    jiandi
    cutting back

    收缩
    shousuo
    contraction

    放掉
    fang diao
    letting go

    节俭
    jiejian
    frugality

    少就是多
    shao jiu shi duo
    less is more

    牺牲
    xisheng
    sacrifice

           The Tao decreases and increases as it is
    needed, impersonally, and on a grand scale.  There
    are times when letting go seems devastating, the end
    of the world; however, it doesn't always have to be so,
    and it might help to remember that less is sometimes
    more.
            The whole of nature is an ebb and flow--the tides,
    the seasons, the very breathing of all living creatures.
    We appreciate some aspects of nature's letting go ,
    but we run into trouble when the same dynamic is at
    play in our own lives...

                                 The Tao Oracle -- 41 Decrease

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