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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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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
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Calm Mindset Water
The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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Happiness Philosophy Ultimate
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
People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?
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Guide Knowledge Order People Reach Value
Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.
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Course Flow Infinity Mindset Purity Simplicity Yourself
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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Earth Life Nature Return
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
Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
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Action Root Silence
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
Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.
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Acceptance Man Object Reality Rejoice Tolerance World
He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.
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Aware Confusion Fools Worst
Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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Fine Philosophy Rest Understand
Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.
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Conflict Harmony Life Stop
Being is thoughtless-beyond and beneath all categories of thought. Expression is the realization of creative thought. Being is still; expression, moving. But then if I do not strive, who will?
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Beyond Creativity Expression Myself Realize Thinking Willing
The sound of water says what I think.
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Myself Sound Thinking 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

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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