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The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.

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Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
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Complete Empty Full Religion Source
A path is made by walking on it.
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Inspirational Journey One Liner Path Walk
The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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Beautiful Description Nature World
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
Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later.
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Cloud Follow Heaven Light Understand Wisdom Yourself
The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.
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Complication Confusion Effect Existence Forget Life Obsession Ourselves Society
Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument.
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Argument Clear Difference Need Right
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
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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Generous Greatness Passion Small Speech Wisdom
Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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Alone Goodness Result
All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
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Beautiful Existence Rare Regard Transformation Ugly Value
The true man breathes with his heels.
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Breathe Heel Man One Liner Philosophy True
The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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Chaos Doubt Priest
The creature born is the creature dying.
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Born Creature Death
The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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Happiness Philosophy Ultimate
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

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