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Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views-then the world will be governed.

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Each one’s destiny cannot be altered.
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Change Destiny One Liner Oneself
He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
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Fame Fear Pursue Risk Scholar
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
All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
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Known Men Utility
Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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Fine Philosophy Rest Understand
We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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Awake Born Calm Death Quiet Sleep
Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
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Enemy Fools Mistake Realize
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
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
The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.
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Discrimination Embrace Failure Man Myself Ordinary See
He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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Activity Himself Live Nature
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
Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?
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Awake Dreams Myself Yourself
A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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Deep Ocean One Liner
When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
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Action Transformation Word World

Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views-then the world will be governed.

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Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views-then the world will be governed.

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