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He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.

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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
Men do not mirror themselves in running water – they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.
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Deep Man Mirror Run Water
Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.
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Conflict Harmony Life Stop
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
The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
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Body Death Life Share Store
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
The true man breathes with his heels.
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Breathe Heel Man One Liner Philosophy True
The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.
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Ancient Existence Knowledge Point Reach Time
He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
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Himself Infinite Nature Oneself Regard Whole
If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.
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Heart Insight Intellectual Knowledge Pierce
Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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Alone Goodness Result
A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
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Greatness Nation Prison Rule
My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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Finding Happiness Opinion Stop Yourself
Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
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Flow Freedom Mindset Yourself
The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.
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Greatness Mindset Person Tragedy
He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul.
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Carry Growth Himself Lose Machine Work

He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.

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