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To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.

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Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.
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Empty Listening Mindset Recognition Spirit Wait
The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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Chaos Doubt Priest
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
Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.
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Flow Himself Identify Intelligence Nature Path Religion Whole
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
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
If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
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Journey Path Way
The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.
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Greatness Mindset Person Tragedy
Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
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Complete Empty Full Religion Source
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
Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection.
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Knowledge Known Perfection Philosophy Religious Spirituality Study True Unknown
A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.
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Different Power Stop Wall
Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only ‘certain’ standard. If you mistake what is relative for something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth.
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Different Man Mistake Standard Truth Ultimate Yourself
When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets.
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Beginning Enjoyment Himself Nervous Skill Target
The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
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Attention Enlightenment Equality Mirror Respond Welcome
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
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Gradual Opinion Ourselves Perspective Point View

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