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My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.

Zhuangzi

When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
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Affirmation Attachment Negative Oneself Religious
The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.
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Help Man Old Perfection
The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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Breathe Clear Man Old
Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
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Deep Existence Forget Literature Meaning Poet Word Yourself
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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Earth Life Nature Return
To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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Charge Dangerous Solution Yourself
When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten. When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten. No drives, no compulsions, no needs, no attractions: Then your affairs are under control. You are a free man.
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Affair Attraction Control Drive Forget Freedom Heart Man Philosophy Shoe Spirituality Yourself
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
When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
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Action Transformation Word World
To have a human form is a joyful thing.
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Form Human Joy
Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.
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Artificial Destiny Fame Natural Sacrifice Virtue
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
There may be difficulty at the moment, but I will not lose the Virtue that I possess. It is when the ice and snow are on them that we see the strength of the cypress and the pine. I am grateful for this trouble around me, because it gives me an opportunity to realize how fortunate I am.
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Difficult Fortunate Gratitude Lose Moments Myself Opportunity Possession Realize Snow Strength Trouble Virtue
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
The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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Chaos Doubt Priest
Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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Beginning Born Death End

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