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Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly.

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But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.
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Argument Energy Exhaust Form Heaven Point Soul Tree
Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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Absence Happiness Perfection Wisdom
To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
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Ignorance Knowledge True Yourself
Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
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Enemy Fools Mistake Realize
When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.
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Complete Identify Spirituality Yourself
The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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Employment Himself Man Mindset Mirror Perfection
For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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Dangerous Knowledge Known
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
Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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Infinite Knowledge Life
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 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
When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten.
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Forget Heart Right
All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.
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Lost Man Need Religion 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
The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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Easy Forget Journey Right Way
Fish live in water. Men die in it. Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.
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Death Deep Diversity Live Men Nature Taste Water

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