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The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.

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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
Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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Beginning Born Death End
We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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Awake Born Calm Death Quiet Sleep
During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.
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Awakening Dreams Greatness Realize Wake Up
Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.
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Greatness Inspirational Knowledge Limitation Literature Poet Small Universe Value
All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so that I can have a word with him?
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Forget Himself Man Word
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
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
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
Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
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Action Root Silence
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
The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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Easy Forget Journey Right Way
The sound of water says what I think.
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Myself Sound Thinking Water
The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.
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Occupy Sky Space Unity
Each one’s destiny cannot be altered.
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Change Destiny One Liner Oneself
All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
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Known Men Utility

The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.

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