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Confucius said, 'Life and death, profit and loss, failure and success, poverty and wealth, value and worthlessness, praise and blame, hunger and thirst, cold and heat - these are natural changes in tfhe order of things. They alternate with one another like day and night. No one knows where one ends and the other begins. Therefore, they should not disturb our peace or enter into our souls. Live so that your are at ease, in harmony with the world, and full of joy. Day and night, share the springtime with all things, thus creating the seasons in your own heart. This is called achieving full harmony.

Chuang Tsu

Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters" (Translated by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English, Vintage Books, Random House, copyright 1974)

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