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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.

Zhuangzi

For all people strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.
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Chaos Excellence People Strive
Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy.
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Beginning Easy Forget Right Yourself
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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Education Form Low Punishment Reward
If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.
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Heart Insight Intellectual Knowledge Pierce
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
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Calm Mindset Water
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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Earth Life Nature Return
To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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Charge Dangerous Solution Yourself
Each one’s destiny cannot be altered.
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Change Destiny One Liner Oneself
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
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
The Tao is in all things, in their divisions and their fullness. What I dislike about divisions is that they multiply, and what i dislike about multiplication is that it makes people want to hold fast to it. So people go out and forget to return, seeing little more than ghosts.
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Division Fast Forget Hold People Return See
When I talk about having good hearing, I don’t mean just listening, but listening to yourself. When I talk about good eyesight, I don’t mean just looking, but looking at yourself.
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Eyes Goodness Hearing Listening Myself Sight Talk
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
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
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Gradual Opinion Ourselves Perspective Point View
Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
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Cherish Curse Knowledge Yourself
If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
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Journey Path Way

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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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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