When I talk about having good hearing, I don’t mean just listening, but listening to yourself. When I talk about good eyesight, I don’t mean just looking, but looking at yourself.
ZHUANGZIThere is danger for the eye in seeing too clearly, danger for the ear in hearing too sharply and danger to the heart from caring too greatly.
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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 perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
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A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
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The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
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To have a human form is a joyful thing.
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Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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Each one’s destiny cannot be altered.
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All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
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The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
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Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
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The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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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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Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
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The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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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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We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.
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Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
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A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.
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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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