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Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
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Fame Fear Pursue Risk Scholar
A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.
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Different Power Stop Wall
All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
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Beautiful Existence Rare Regard Transformation Ugly Value
Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
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God Himself Man Reward Work
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
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Calm Mindset Water
Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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Fine Philosophy Rest Understand
To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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Charge Dangerous Solution Yourself
The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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Easy Forget Journey Right Way
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
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
Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.
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Breathe Control Inspirational Magic Meditation Power Strength
The true man breathes with his heels.
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Breathe Heel Man One Liner Philosophy True
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
Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
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Effort Forget Home Inspirational Stars
The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.
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Occupy Sky Space Unity
Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.
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Empty Listening Mindset Recognition Spirit Wait

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

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