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All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.

Zhuangzi

Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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Broad Busy Calm Greatness Understand
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
Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.
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Course Flow Infinity Mindset Purity Simplicity Yourself
Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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Fine Philosophy Rest Understand
Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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Absence Happiness Perfection Wisdom
Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
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Action Root Silence
Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
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Cherish Curse Knowledge Yourself
The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.
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Complication Confusion Effect Existence Forget Life Obsession Ourselves Society
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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Education Form Low Punishment Reward
When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
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Action Transformation Word World
The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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Happiness Philosophy Ultimate
Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
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Acceptance Flow Mindset Stay Ultimate
All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
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Known Men Utility
The saying goes, ‘The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.’ This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot affect him, nothing unpleasant can disturb him, his Virtue is complete and his spirit is not stirred up.
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Calm Compete Complete Disturb Ease Manifestation Priest Rest Sage Virtue
Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
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Effort Forget Home Inspirational Stars
The creature born is the creature dying.
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Born Creature Death

All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.

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