Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
ZHUANGZIFor we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
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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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Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.
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When I talk about having good hearing, I don’t mean just listening, but listening to yourself. When I talk about good eyesight, I don’t mean just looking, but looking at yourself.
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When there is no more separation between ‘this’ and ‘that,’ it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.
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When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
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To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one’s true nature. Realization of one’s true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.
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Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection.
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
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When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
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To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
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Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy.
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The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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The sound of water says what I think.
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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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Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
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True men” are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn, warm like spring. Their passions arise like the four seasons, in harmony with the ten thousand creatures, and no one knows their limits.
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Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
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The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers – because it lives with those who know how to speak.
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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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Men do not mirror themselves in running water – they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
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