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The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers – because it lives with those who know how to speak.

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Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
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Absence Luck Principle
The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.
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Ancient Existence Knowledge Point Reach Time
Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection.
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Knowledge Known Perfection Philosophy Religious Spirituality Study True Unknown
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
The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?
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Case Death Finding Live Pleasant Return
You are still guided by your expectations.
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Expectation Guide Yourself
The sage has the sun and moon by his side and the universe under his arm. He blends everything into a harmonious whole. . . . He blends the disparities of ten thousand years into one complete purity. All things are blended like this and mutually involve each other.
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Complete Each Other Harmony Involve Moon Purity Sage Sun Universe
He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
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Himself Infinite Nature Oneself Regard Whole
Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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Fine Philosophy Rest Understand
To have a human form is a joyful thing.
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Form Human Joy
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
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
If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
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Journey Path Way
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
Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
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Enemy Fools Mistake Realize
When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets.
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Beginning Enjoyment Himself Nervous Skill Target

The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers – because it lives with those who know how to speak.

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