The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
ZHUANGZIOnly 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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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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Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
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The creature born is the creature dying.
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Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.
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Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.
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If one is true to one’s inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?
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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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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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Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.
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Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views-then the world will be governed.
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Fish live in water. Men die in it. Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.
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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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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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Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.
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There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is something. There is nothing.
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The Tao is in all things, in their divisions and their fullness. What I dislike about divisions is that they multiply, and what i dislike about multiplication is that it makes people want to hold fast to it. So people go out and forget to return, seeing little more than ghosts.
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Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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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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Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
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Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.
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He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul.
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