Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.
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Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
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Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.
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Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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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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Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
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Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.
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A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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True men” are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn, warm like spring. Their passions arise like the four seasons, in harmony with the ten thousand creatures, and no one knows their limits.
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The true man breathes with his heels.
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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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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The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.
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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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