A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
ZHUANGZIThose who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
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Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
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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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To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
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Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
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The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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You are still guided by your expectations.
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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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Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
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True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear.
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The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?
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The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten.
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But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.
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