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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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The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.



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The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.



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If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.



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Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.



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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.



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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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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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