You are still guided by your expectations.
ZHUANGZITrue 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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Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.
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Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
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Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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To have a human form is a joyful thing.
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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers – because it lives with those who know how to speak.
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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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Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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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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Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy.
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When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten.
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Men do not mirror themselves in running water – they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.
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