One whose inner being is fixed upon such greatness emits a Heavenly glow. Even though he has this Heavenly glow, others will see him as just a man. Someone who has reached this point will begin to be consistent.
ZHUANGZIIf you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.
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A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.
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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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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.
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Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.
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Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
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All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so that I can have a word with him?
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When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
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He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
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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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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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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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The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
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Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!
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Easy 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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