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Compare birth with death, compare death with life; compare what is possible with what is not possible and compare what is not possible with what is possible; because there is, there is not, and because there is not, there is.

Zhuangzi

When I talk about having good hearing, I don’t mean just listening, but listening to yourself. When I talk about good eyesight, I don’t mean just looking, but looking at yourself.
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Eyes Goodness Hearing Listening Myself Sight Talk
If one is true to one’s inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?
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Deep Follow Teacher True Wisdom
The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.
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Complication Confusion Effect Existence Forget Life Obsession Ourselves Society
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
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
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
Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
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Cherish Curse Knowledge Yourself
Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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Beginning Born Death End
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
Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.
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Heart Mindset Soul Understand Yourself
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
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 sound of water says what I think.
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Myself Sound Thinking Water
The sage has the sun and moon by his side and the universe under his arm. He blends everything into a harmonious whole. . . . He blends the disparities of ten thousand years into one complete purity. All things are blended like this and mutually involve each other.
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Complete Each Other Harmony Involve Moon Purity Sage Sun Universe
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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Education Form Low Punishment Reward
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
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Calm Mindset Water

Compare birth with death, compare death with life; compare what is possible with what is not possible and compare what is not possible with what is possible; because there is, there is not, and because there is not, there is.

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Compare birth with death, compare death with life; compare what is possible with what is not possible and compare what is not possible with what is possible; because there is, there is not, and because there is not, there is.

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