"Running around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along with things."
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"Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle."
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"There may be difficulty at the moment, but I will not lose the Virtue that I possess. It is when the ice and snow are on them that we see the strength of the cypress and the pine. I am grateful for this trouble around me, because it gives me an opportunity to realize how fortunate I am."
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"When you're dreaming, you don't know it's a dream. You might even interpret a dream in your dream - and then wake up and realize it was all a dream. Perhaps a great awakening will reveal this to be a dream as well."
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"Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness."
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"It is only when the formed learns from the unformed that there is understanding."
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"Men of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down. The world values words and hands down books but, though the world values them, I do not think them worth valuing. What the world takes to be values is not real value."
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"Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is then a direct grasp of what is right there before you that can never be heard with the ear or understood with the mind."
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"How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not like a man who, having left home in his youth, has forgotten the way back?"
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"He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar."
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"The fish trap exists because of the fish: once you have gotten the meanings, you can forget the words."
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"Am I a human dreaming I am a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming I am a human?"
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"Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words."
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"I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly."
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"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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"When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed."
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"Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers."
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"People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?"
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"The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others."
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"He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion."
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