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.
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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A path is made by walking on it.
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Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
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Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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The creature born is the creature dying.
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When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
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There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is something. There is nothing.
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Study 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.
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The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.
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To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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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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For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.
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