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

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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
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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Education Form Low Punishment Reward
There is danger for the eye in seeing too clearly, danger for the ear in hearing too sharply and danger to the heart from caring too greatly.
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Clear Dangerous Eyes Greatness Heart Sharp
The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.
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Occupy Sky Space Unity
We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures.
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Body Chance Endurance Escape Freedom Joy Possession Sage Transformation World
Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
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Acceptance Flow Mindset Stay Ultimate
Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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Calm Earth Heaven Purity
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
He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
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Himself Infinite Nature Oneself Regard Whole
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
To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone with the spiritual and the intelligent – herein lie the techniques of Tao of the ancients.
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Alone Ancient Essence Fundamental Intelligence Quiet Spiritual Technique
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
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
Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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Infinite Knowledge Life
The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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Breathe Clear Man Old

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

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