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Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.

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The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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Breathe Clear Man Old
When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten.
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Forget Heart Right
Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
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God Himself Man Reward Work
When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.
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Complete Identify Spirituality Yourself
True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear.
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Clear Precise Shallow True Understand Wisdom Word
The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
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Attention Enlightenment Equality Mirror Respond Welcome
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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Beginning End Exercise Flow Religious Road Spirituality Thinking
Men do not mirror themselves in running water – they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.
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Deep Man Mirror Run Water
The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.
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Capacity Clear Eyes Mindset Organ Wisdom
Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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Battle Intelligence Promise Sound Victory
He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
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Himself Infinite Nature Oneself Regard Whole
And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?
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Death Hate Lost Man Myself Name Return Young
The eyes envy the mind.
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Eyes Jealous Mindset
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
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
But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.
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Argument Energy Exhaust Form Heaven Point Soul Tree
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
To have attained to the human form is a source of joy. What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.
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Bliss Count Form Happiness Human Joy Source Transition
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
My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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Finding Happiness Opinion Stop Yourself
The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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Happiness Philosophy Ultimate
Being is thoughtless-beyond and beneath all categories of thought. Expression is the realization of creative thought. Being is still; expression, moving. But then if I do not strive, who will?
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Beyond Creativity Expression Myself Realize Thinking Willing
Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection.
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Knowledge Known Perfection Philosophy Religious Spirituality Study True Unknown
Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
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Deep Existence Forget Literature Meaning Poet Word Yourself
There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is something. There is nothing.
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Beginning Philosophy
Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.
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Heart Mindset Soul Understand Yourself
Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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Infinite Knowledge Life

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