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The saying goes, ‘The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.’ This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot affect him, nothing unpleasant can disturb him, his Virtue is complete and his spirit is not stirred up.

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A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.
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Bright Confusion Doubt Light Sage
The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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Beautiful Description Nature World
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
Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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Absence Happiness Perfection Wisdom
One whose inner being is fixed upon such greatness emits a Heavenly glow. Even though he has this Heavenly glow, others will see him as just a man. Someone who has reached this point will begin to be consistent.
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Beginning Consistent Glow Greatness Heaven Point
Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
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Flow Freedom Mindset Yourself
Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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Fine Philosophy Rest Understand
He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
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Himself Infinite Nature Oneself Regard Whole
Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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Infinite Knowledge Life
A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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Deep Ocean One Liner
Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.
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Heart Mindset Soul Understand Yourself
When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
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Affirmation Attachment Negative Oneself Religious
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
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
The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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Chaos Doubt Priest
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

The saying goes, ‘The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.’ This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot affect him, nothing unpleasant can disturb him, his Virtue is complete and his spirit is not stirred up.

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The saying goes, ‘The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.’ This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot affect him, nothing unpleasant can disturb him, his Virtue is complete and his spirit is not stirred up.

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