When there is no more separation between ‘this’ and ‘that,’ it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.
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.
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But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.
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He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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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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Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.
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Fish live in water. Men die in it. Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.
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The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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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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My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.
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Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.
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You are still guided by your expectations.
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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 ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
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