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Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.

Zhuangzi

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
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Gradual Opinion Ourselves Perspective Point View
Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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Infinite Knowledge Life
To have attained to the human form is a source of joy. What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.
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Bliss Count Form Happiness Human Joy Source Transition
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
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Calm Mindset Water
The creature born is the creature dying.
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Born Creature Death
Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.
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Essence Lost Lying Precious Yourself
He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.
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Aware Confusion Fools Worst
Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?
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Finding Forget Man Myself Talk Word
There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is something. There is nothing.
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Beginning Philosophy
A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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Deep Ocean One Liner
Being is thoughtless-beyond and beneath all categories of thought. Expression is the realization of creative thought. Being is still; expression, moving. But then if I do not strive, who will?
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Beyond Creativity Expression Myself Realize Thinking Willing
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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Earth Life Nature Return
Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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Beginning Born Death End
If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.
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Life Point Purpose
True men” are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn, warm like spring. Their passions arise like the four seasons, in harmony with the ten thousand creatures, and no one knows their limits.
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Creature Dignity Expression Harmony Inspirational Man Passion Peace Season Strong True Warm
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

Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.

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