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.
ZHUANGZIGood 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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The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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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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Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.
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My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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A path is made by walking on it.
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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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Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.
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The true man breathes with his heels.
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If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.
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Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
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Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.
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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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Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later.
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When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
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