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I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

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Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.
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Breathe Control Inspirational Magic Meditation Power Strength
Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels. Such is the real nature of horses.
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Animal Drink Hairs Horse Nature Protection Reality Skin
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
He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
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Fame Fear Pursue Risk Scholar
The creature born is the creature dying.
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Born Creature Death
To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
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Ignorance Knowledge True Yourself
The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.
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Hide Himself Man Perfection Person Respect Sight
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
Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
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Enemy Fools Mistake Realize
Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.
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Anxiety Condition Follow Mindset Religious
When there is no more separation between ‘this’ and ‘that,’ it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.
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Infinite Point Religious Separate Sight View Yourself
The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.
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Discrimination Embrace Failure Man Myself Ordinary See
The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
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Better Choice King Man Position Stream Wisdom World
A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.
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Bright Confusion Doubt Light Sage
The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.
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Condition Life Man Natural River Way
Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.
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Course Flow Infinity Mindset Purity Simplicity Yourself

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