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.
ZHUANGZIEasy 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.
ZHUANGZIAre you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?
ZHUANGZIThe true man breathes with his heels.
ZHUANGZIThe little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers – because it lives with those who know how to speak.
ZHUANGZIIf water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
ZHUANGZIFor all people strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.
ZHUANGZIThe ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
ZHUANGZIThe men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
ZHUANGZIHe who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
ZHUANGZIAll men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so that I can have a word with him?
ZHUANGZIYou are still guided by your expectations.
ZHUANGZIA frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
ZHUANGZITransmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.
ZHUANGZIStudy is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection.
ZHUANGZIHuman 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!
ZHUANGZIAll men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
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