The true man breathes with his heels.
ZHUANGZIPerfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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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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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
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The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures.
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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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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.
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The sound of water says what I think.
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Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!
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True men” are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn, warm like spring. Their passions arise like the four seasons, in harmony with the ten thousand creatures, and no one knows their limits.
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The creature born is the creature dying.
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Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument.
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Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
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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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To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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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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There may be difficulty at the moment, but I will not lose the Virtue that I possess. It is when the ice and snow are on them that we see the strength of the cypress and the pine. I am grateful for this trouble around me, because it gives me an opportunity to realize how fortunate I am.
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Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.
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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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The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
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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 one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.
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Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
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The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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