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.
ZHUANGZIWe 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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Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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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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You are still guided by your expectations.
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Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
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Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.
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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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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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Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.
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The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.
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My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.
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For all people strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.
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