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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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Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.
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Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
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Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
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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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Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.
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All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
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Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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Calm Earth Heaven Purity
The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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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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Butterfly Dreams Man Myself
Compare birth with death, compare death with life; compare what is possible with what is not possible and compare what is not possible with what is possible; because there is, there is not, and because there is not, there is.
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Born Compare Death Life Possible
To exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting in Tao. To start from nowhere and follow no road is the first step toward attaining Tao.
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The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
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Body Death Life Share Store
Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
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Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.
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Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
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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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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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