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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.

Zhuangzi

There may be difficulty at the moment, but I will not lose the Virtue that I possess. It is when the ice and snow are on them that we see the strength of the cypress and the pine. I am grateful for this trouble around me, because it gives me an opportunity to realize how fortunate I am.
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Difficult Fortunate Gratitude Lose Moments Myself Opportunity Possession Realize Snow Strength Trouble Virtue
There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is something. There is nothing.
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Beginning Philosophy
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 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
Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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Alone Goodness Result
Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly.
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Butterfly Dreams Himself Incarnation
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
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Gradual Opinion Ourselves Perspective Point View
Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.
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Breathe Control Inspirational Magic Meditation Power Strength
Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.
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Flow Spiritual Struggle Universe Yourself
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
Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!
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Awake Easy Fools Imagination Reality Understand
For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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Dangerous Knowledge Known
When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten.
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Forget Heart 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
If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
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Journey Path Way
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

The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.

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