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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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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
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
A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.
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Bright Confusion Doubt Light Sage
Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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Enough Nature Necessary
The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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Chaos Doubt Priest
Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only ‘certain’ standard. If you mistake what is relative for something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth.
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Different Man Mistake Standard Truth Ultimate Yourself
Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it’s way.
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Earth Fortune Goodness heavy Stay Way
There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is something. There is nothing.
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Beginning Philosophy
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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Generous Greatness Passion Small Speech Wisdom
All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
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Known Men Utility
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
Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.
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Beginning Born Death Existence Limitation Philosophy Spiritual Start
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
When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten. When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten. No drives, no compulsions, no needs, no attractions: Then your affairs are under control. You are a free man.
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Affair Attraction Control Drive Forget Freedom Heart Man Philosophy Shoe Spirituality Yourself
Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
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God Himself Man Reward Work
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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Earth Life Nature Return

Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.

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