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The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.

Zhuangzi

Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.
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Acceptance Man Object Reality Rejoice Tolerance World
Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
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Absence Luck Principle
When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.
ZHUANGZI

Complete Identify Spirituality Yourself
All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so that I can have a word with him?
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Forget Himself Man Word
Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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Enough Nature Necessary
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
Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!
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Death Drive Human Knowledge Life Limitation Oneself Pursuit
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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Beginning Easy Forget Right Yourself
The Tao is in all things, in their divisions and their fullness. What I dislike about divisions is that they multiply, and what i dislike about multiplication is that it makes people want to hold fast to it. So people go out and forget to return, seeing little more than ghosts.
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Division Fast Forget Hold People Return See
To have a human form is a joyful thing.
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Form Human Joy
I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.
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Listening Reckless Talk Try Word Yourself
The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.
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Ancient Existence Knowledge Point Reach Time
When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
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Ignorance People Philosophy
Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
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Enemy Fools Mistake Realize
He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
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Himself Infinite Nature Oneself Regard Whole
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
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Calm Creation Mindset Mirror Universe Water

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