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Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.

Zhuangzi

The saying goes, ‘The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.’ This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot affect him, nothing unpleasant can disturb him, his Virtue is complete and his spirit is not stirred up.
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Calm Compete Complete Disturb Ease Manifestation Priest Rest Sage Virtue
You are still guided by your expectations.
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Expectation Guide Yourself
When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten. When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten. No drives, no compulsions, no needs, no attractions: Then your affairs are under control. You are a free man.
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Affair Attraction Control Drive Forget Freedom Heart Man Philosophy Shoe Spirituality Yourself
Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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Battle Intelligence Promise Sound Victory
The true man breathes with his heels.
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Breathe Heel Man One Liner Philosophy True
Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.
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Flow Spiritual Struggle Universe Yourself
Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.
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Empty Listening Mindset Recognition Spirit Wait
Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
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Allow Natural Satisfaction Yourself
The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?
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Case Death Finding Live Pleasant Return
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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Calm Creation Mindset Mirror Universe Water
I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.
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Listening Reckless Talk Try Word Yourself
Men do not mirror themselves in running water – they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.
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Deep Man Mirror Run Water
If one is true to one’s inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?
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Deep Follow Teacher True Wisdom
For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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Dangerous Knowledge Known
There may be difficulty at the moment, but I will not lose the Virtue that I possess. It is when the ice and snow are on them that we see the strength of the cypress and the pine. I am grateful for this trouble around me, because it gives me an opportunity to realize how fortunate I am.
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Difficult Fortunate Gratitude Lose Moments Myself Opportunity Possession Realize Snow Strength Trouble Virtue
The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.
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Animal Creature Eyes Heart Jealous Wind

Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.

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