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Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy.

Zhuangzi

All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
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Beautiful Existence Rare Regard Transformation Ugly Value
To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone with the spiritual and the intelligent – herein lie the techniques of Tao of the ancients.
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Alone Ancient Essence Fundamental Intelligence Quiet Spiritual Technique
He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
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Himself Infinite Nature Oneself Regard Whole
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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Butterfly Dreams Man Myself
Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it’s way.
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Earth Fortune Goodness heavy Stay Way
One whose inner being is fixed upon such greatness emits a Heavenly glow. Even though he has this Heavenly glow, others will see him as just a man. Someone who has reached this point will begin to be consistent.
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Beginning Consistent Glow Greatness Heaven Point
Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views-then the world will be governed.
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Government Mindset Personal Room Simplicity Spirit View Wander Way World
Each one’s destiny cannot be altered.
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Change Destiny One Liner Oneself
Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.
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Mad Man Negative Positive
Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later.
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Cloud Follow Heaven Light Understand Wisdom Yourself
The true man breathes with his heels.
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Breathe Heel Man One Liner Philosophy True
Being is thoughtless-beyond and beneath all categories of thought. Expression is the realization of creative thought. Being is still; expression, moving. But then if I do not strive, who will?
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Beyond Creativity Expression Myself Realize Thinking Willing
The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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Happiness Philosophy Ultimate
The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.
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Discrimination Embrace Failure Man Myself Ordinary See
To exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting in Tao. To start from nowhere and follow no road is the first step toward attaining Tao.
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Beginning End Exercise Flow Religious Road Spirituality Thinking
Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
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Enemy Fools Mistake Realize

Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy.

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Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy.

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