Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
ZHUANGZIRight is not right; so is not so. If right were really right it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument.
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To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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The true man breathes with his heels.
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Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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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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He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul.
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Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it’s way.
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Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only ‘certain’ standard. If you mistake what is relative for something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth.
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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Being is thoughtless-beyond and beneath all categories of thought. Expression is the realization of creative thought. Being is still; expression, moving. But then if I do not strive, who will?
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There is danger for the eye in seeing too clearly, danger for the ear in hearing too sharply and danger to the heart from caring too greatly.
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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
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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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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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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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If one is true to one’s inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?
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The sage has the sun and moon by his side and the universe under his arm. He blends everything into a harmonious whole. . . . He blends the disparities of ten thousand years into one complete purity. All things are blended like this and mutually involve each other.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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The creature born is the creature dying.
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Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.
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The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.
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Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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