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We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening

Zhuangzi

The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.
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Capacity Clear Eyes Mindset Organ Wisdom
Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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Fine Philosophy Rest Understand
The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.
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Hide Himself Man Perfection Person Respect Sight
So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless. It is said, those who lose themselves in their desire for things also lose their innate nature by being vulgar.
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Desire Fade Happiness Loss Nature Vulgar Worth
Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
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Allow Natural Satisfaction Yourself
You are still guided by your expectations.
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Expectation Guide Yourself
He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul.
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Carry Growth Himself Lose Machine Work
Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly.
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Butterfly Dreams Himself Incarnation
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
True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear.
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Clear Precise Shallow True Understand Wisdom Word
Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
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Absence Luck Principle
Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
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Action Root Silence
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
Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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Absence Happiness Perfection Wisdom
Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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Enough Nature Necessary
The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.
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Condition Life Man Natural River Way

We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening

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