The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.
ZHUANGZIThe perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.
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Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
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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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Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.
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To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one’s true nature. Realization of one’s true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.
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The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.
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Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?
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If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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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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Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
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When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.
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Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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The sound of water says what I think.
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Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.
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