He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
ZHUANGZIThe space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.
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Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.
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Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.
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You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.
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Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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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.
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Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.
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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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Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.
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He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.
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During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.
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Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.
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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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