"Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?"
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"Free from desire, you realize the mystery."
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"If you want to be given everything, give everything up."
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"Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity."
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"The more you know the less you understand."
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"...the more you talk of it, the less you understand."
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"If good happens, good; if bad happens, good."
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"Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner."
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"Observe how endings become beginnings."
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"Since before time and space were, the Tao is. It is beyond is and is not."
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"The Tao that can be spoken is not the true Tao."
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"The Tao is like a well; used but never used up."
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"The amount that she loved us was beyond her reach. It could not be quantified or contained. It was the ten thousand named things in the Tao Te Ching’s universe and then ten thousand more. Her love was full-throated and all-encompassing and unadorned. Every day she blew through her entire reserve."
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