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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Zhuangzi

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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Flow Himself Identify Intelligence Nature Path Religion Whole
Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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Beginning Born Death End
The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.
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Condition Life Man Natural River Way
Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels. Such is the real nature of horses.
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Animal Drink Hairs Horse Nature Protection Reality Skin
To have attained to the human form is a source of joy. What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.
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Bliss Count Form Happiness Human Joy Source Transition
Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
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Effort Forget Home Inspirational Stars
A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.
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Bright Confusion Doubt Light Sage
Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
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Complete Empty Full Religion Source
A path is made by walking on it.
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Inspirational Journey One Liner Path Walk
Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.
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Break Greatness Knowledge Oneself Small
Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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Broad Busy Calm Greatness Understand
My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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Finding Happiness Opinion Stop Yourself
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
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Calm Mindset Water
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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Education Form Low Punishment Reward
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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Argument Energy Exhaust Form Heaven Point Soul Tree
A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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Deep Ocean One Liner

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

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