Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
ZHUANGZITao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
ZHUANGZIA path is made by walking on it.
ZHUANGZITransmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.
ZHUANGZIEach one’s destiny cannot be altered.
ZHUANGZITo 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.
ZHUANGZITo be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
ZHUANGZIAll existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
ZHUANGZIBut you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.
ZHUANGZIIf the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
ZHUANGZIA frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
ZHUANGZICherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
ZHUANGZIGreat understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
ZHUANGZISo if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless. It is said, those who lose themselves in their desire for things also lose their innate nature by being vulgar.
ZHUANGZIThe little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers – because it lives with those who know how to speak.
ZHUANGZIWhen you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.
ZHUANGZIThe 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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