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Affirmation (n.) is based on denial and denial on affirmation, as life arises from death and possibility from impossibility.
Baby (n.) looks at things all day without blinking because its eyes fix on nothing — which, said Chuang-tzu, is the whole of mental hygiene.
Death (n.) is the separation of soul from body.
Drunkenness (n.) shows what spontaneity gives: the drunk falls out of the cart and does not die, because he meets the accident in a different way.
Ease (n.) is being unconscious of your feet because the shoes fit; he who begins at ease and never leaves it is unconscious even of the ease of ease.
Emotion (n.) comes like music from hollow wood in the wind, or mushrooms from the damp — day and night they alternate, and no one knows whence.
Hunchback (n.) is Chuang-tzu's picture of freedom from convention: first rejected by the conscription officers, first handed free alms.
Perfect man (n.) uses his mind like a mirror: it grasps nothing, refuses nothing, receives but does not keep.
Right (n.) without its correlative wrong is as absurd as heaven without earth; those who insist on it are fools or knaves.
A Road (n.) is made by people walking the path that becomes the road. Making it so makes it so.