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Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.

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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
To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one’s true nature. Realization of one’s true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.
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Constant Happiness Nature Oneself Perfection Realize
Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.
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Flow Himself Identify Intelligence Nature Path Religion Whole
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
Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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Enough Nature Necessary
A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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Deep Ocean One Liner
My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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Finding Happiness Opinion Stop Yourself
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
Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
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Flow Freedom Mindset 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
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
Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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Infinite Knowledge Life
Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
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Automatic Body Care Strong Willing
If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
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Journey Path Way
Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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Alone Goodness Result
Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.
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Anxiety Condition Follow Mindset Religious
Running around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along with things.
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Enjoyment Goodness Laughter Run
Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.
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Essence Lost Lying Precious Yourself
The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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Employment Himself Man Mindset Mirror Perfection
To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
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Ignorance Knowledge True Yourself
The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.
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Occupy Sky Space Unity
When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
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Action Transformation Word World
We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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Awake Born Calm Death Quiet Sleep
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
The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.
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Complication Confusion Effect Existence Forget Life Obsession Ourselves Society
The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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Chaos Doubt Priest
There is danger for the eye in seeing too clearly, danger for the ear in hearing too sharply and danger to the heart from caring too greatly.
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Clear Dangerous Eyes Greatness Heart Sharp

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