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Silence, and non action are the root of all things.

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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
I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.
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Listening Reckless Talk Try Word Yourself
When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
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Action Transformation Word World
The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?
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Case Death Finding Live Pleasant Return
You are still guided by your expectations.
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Expectation Guide Yourself
You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.
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Creature Ocean Season Summer Talk Yourself
The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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Happiness Philosophy Ultimate
Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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Beginning Born Death End
All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.
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Lost Man Need Religion Water
There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is something. There is nothing.
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Beginning Philosophy
Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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Fine Philosophy Rest Understand
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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Education Form Low Punishment Reward
Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
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Cherish Curse Knowledge Yourself
To have a human form is a joyful thing.
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Form Human Joy
Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.
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Mad Man Negative Positive
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
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Calm Creation Mindset Mirror Universe Water

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