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Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?

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Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later.
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Cloud Follow Heaven Light Understand Wisdom Yourself
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
There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is something. There is nothing.
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Beginning Philosophy
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
If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.
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Life Point Purpose
Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
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Absence Luck Principle
When there is no more separation between ‘this’ and ‘that,’ it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.
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Infinite Point Religious Separate Sight View 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
To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
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Ignorance Knowledge True Yourself
The true man breathes with his heels.
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Breathe Heel Man One Liner Philosophy True
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
You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.
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Creature Ocean Season Summer Talk Yourself
When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
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Action Transformation Word World
You are still guided by your expectations.
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Expectation Guide Yourself
The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers – because it lives with those who know how to speak.
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Children Deep Learning Live Talk Teacher
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
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Calm Mindset Water

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