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

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Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.
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Anxiety Condition Follow Mindset Religious
Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
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Action Root Silence
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
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Calm Mindset Water
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
Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.
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Beginning Born Death Existence Limitation Philosophy Spiritual Start
Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels. Such is the real nature of horses.
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Animal Drink Hairs Horse Nature Protection Reality Skin
Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
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Enemy Fools Mistake Realize
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
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
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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Born Compare Death Life Possible
Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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Battle Intelligence Promise Sound Victory
The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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Happiness Philosophy Ultimate
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
The creature born is the creature dying.
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Born Creature Death
Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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Enough Nature Necessary
Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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Calm Earth Heaven Purity

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

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