A person with a mind is bound to be filled with conceptions. These conceptions prevent him from knowing things directly, so a person with a mind shall never really know.

Complete people gaze into the blue sky above, plunge into the center of the earth below, and run freely in the eight directions without even a change of mood.

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Develop flexibility and you will be firm; cultivate yielding and you will be strong.

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Division and differentiation are the processes by which things are created. Since things are emerging and dissolving all the time, you cannot specify the point when this division will stop.

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If a branch is too rigid, it will break. Resist, and you will perish. Know how to yield, and you will survive.

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If you can dispense with reputation, then you are free from care. Reputation is only a visitor, but reality is here to stay.

Once you transcend the external differences, anything can be merged with anything.

The ancient saying that force outdoes inferiors while gentility outdoes superiors.

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The contented person finds rest in death, and for the greedy person, death puts an end to his long list of desires.

The stories are also used as testing devices, to gauge mental state by reaction, as well as blueprints for further development.

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