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Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!

Zhuangzi

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
A path is made by walking on it.
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Inspirational Journey One Liner Path Walk
Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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Absence Happiness Perfection Wisdom
During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.
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Awakening Dreams Greatness Realize Wake Up
When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.
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Complete Identify Spirituality Yourself
To have attained to the human form is a source of joy. What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.
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Bliss Count Form Happiness Human Joy Source Transition
Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later.
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Cloud Follow Heaven Light Understand Wisdom Yourself
If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
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Journey Path Way
To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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Charge Dangerous Solution Yourself
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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Empty Heart Light Room Window
And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?
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Death Hate Lost Man Myself Name Return Young
We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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Awake Born Calm Death Quiet Sleep
The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
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Better Choice King Man Position Stream Wisdom World
Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
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God Himself Man Reward Work
Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
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Enemy Fools Mistake Realize
The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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Chaos Doubt Priest

Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!

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