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.
ZHUANGZIHe 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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During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.
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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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The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.
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Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.
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Never admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it.
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The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
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The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
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A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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Each one’s destiny cannot be altered.
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The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
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He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
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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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To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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