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If one is true to one’s inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?

Zhuangzi

Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.
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Break Greatness Knowledge Oneself Small
To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
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Ignorance Knowledge True Yourself
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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Artificial Destiny Fame Natural Sacrifice Virtue
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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Awakening Dreams Greatness Realize Wake Up
The Tao is in all things, in their divisions and their fullness. What I dislike about divisions is that they multiply, and what i dislike about multiplication is that it makes people want to hold fast to it. So people go out and forget to return, seeing little more than ghosts.
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Division Fast Forget Hold People Return See
Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
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God Himself Man Reward Work
The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.
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Occupy Sky Space Unity
Fish live in water. Men die in it. Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.
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Death Deep Diversity Live Men Nature Taste Water
You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.
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Creature Ocean Season Summer Talk Yourself
So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless. It is said, those who lose themselves in their desire for things also lose their innate nature by being vulgar.
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Desire Fade Happiness Loss Nature Vulgar Worth
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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Generous Greatness Passion Small Speech Wisdom
Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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Alone Goodness Result
Each one’s destiny cannot be altered.
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Change Destiny One Liner Oneself
Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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Fine Philosophy Rest Understand
Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
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Absence Luck Principle
The true man breathes with his heels.
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Breathe Heel Man One Liner Philosophy True

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