He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul.
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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The Tao is in all things, in their divisions and their fullness. What I dislike about divisions is that they multiply, and what i dislike about multiplication is that it makes people want to hold fast to it. So people go out and forget to return, seeing little more than ghosts.
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Never admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it.
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Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.
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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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A path is made by walking on it.
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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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My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.
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When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
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Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.
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Running around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along with things.
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When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
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We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures.
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