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Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.

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The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.
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Animal Creature Eyes Heart Jealous Wind
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
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
My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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Finding Happiness Opinion Stop Yourself
Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
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Enemy Fools Mistake Realize
The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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Employment Himself Man Mindset Mirror Perfection
All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.
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Lost Man Need Religion Water
When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
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Ignorance People Philosophy
The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.
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Discrimination Embrace Failure Man Myself Ordinary See
All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
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Known Men Utility
We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures.
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Body Chance Endurance Escape Freedom Joy Possession Sage Transformation World
Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
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Automatic Body Care Strong Willing
To have a human form is a joyful thing.
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Form Human Joy
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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Artificial Destiny Fame Natural Sacrifice Virtue
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
Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
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Action Root Silence

Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.

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