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Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.

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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
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Gradual Opinion Ourselves Perspective Point View
Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
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Action Root Silence
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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Deep Man Mirror Run Water
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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Creature Dignity Expression Harmony Inspirational Man Passion Peace Season Strong True Warm
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
For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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Dangerous Knowledge Known
There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is something. There is nothing.
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Beginning Philosophy
Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
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Complete Empty Full Religion Source
Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
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Cherish Curse Knowledge Yourself
All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so that I can have a word with him?
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Forget Himself Man Word
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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Beginning Easy Forget Right Yourself
When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten. When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten. No drives, no compulsions, no needs, no attractions: Then your affairs are under control. You are a free man.
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Affair Attraction Control Drive Forget Freedom Heart Man Philosophy Shoe Spirituality Yourself
Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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Beginning Born Death End
The sound of water says what I think.
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Myself Sound Thinking Water
Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
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Flow Freedom Mindset Yourself
The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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Happiness Philosophy Ultimate

Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.

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