"...the ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body."
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"The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can."
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"The men of old breathed clear down to their heels."
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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!"
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"To use what has a boundary to pursue what is limitless is dangerous; with this knowledge, if we still go after knowledge, we will run into trouble. Do not do what is good in order to gain praise. If you do what is bad be sure to avoid the punishment. Follow the Middle Course, for this is the way to keep yourself together, to sustain your life, to care for your parents and to live for many years."
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"My most interesting memory is of my first real dream. I was a caterpillar, wriggling around in the earth, just the way a caterpillar would. Following my caterpillar whims, completely unaware of anyone."
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"Man may rest in the eternal fitness; he may abide in the everlasting; and roam from the beginning to the end of all creation. He may bring his nature to a condition of ONE, he may nourish his strength; he may harmonise his virtue, and so put himself into partnership with God."
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"That knowledge which stops at what it does not know, is the highest knowledge."
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"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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"All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility."
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"Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him?"
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"Now, when ordinary people attempt to find happiness, I am not sure whether the happiness is really happiness or not. I study what ordinary people do to find happiness, what they struggle for, rushing about apparently unable to stop."
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"Once Chuang Chou dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know he was Chuang Chou. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakeable Chuang Chou. But he didn't know if he was Chuang Chou who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Chuang Chou."
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"Water becomes clear and transparent when in a quiescent stage. How much the more wonderful will be the mind of a sage when poised in quiescence! It is the mirror of heaven and earth, reflecting the ten thousand things."
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"If you wish to care for your body, first of all take care of material things, though even when you have all the things you want, the body can still be uncared for"
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"The true man breathes with his heels."
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"Compare birth with death, compare death with life; compare what is possible with what is not possible and compare what is not possible with what is possible; because there is, there is not, and because there is not, there is."
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