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Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.

Zhuangzi

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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Flow Himself Identify Intelligence Nature Path Religion Whole
The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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Easy Forget Journey Right Way
You are still guided by your expectations.
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Expectation Guide Yourself
To exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting in Tao. To start from nowhere and follow no road is the first step toward attaining Tao.
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Beginning End Exercise Flow Religious Road Spirituality Thinking
Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly.
ZHUANGZI

Butterfly Dreams Himself Incarnation
True men” are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn, warm like spring. Their passions arise like the four seasons, in harmony with the ten thousand creatures, and no one knows their limits.
ZHUANGZI

Creature Dignity Expression Harmony Inspirational Man Passion Peace Season Strong True Warm
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
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?
ZHUANGZI

Forget Himself Man Word
My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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Finding Happiness Opinion Stop Yourself
Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
ZHUANGZI

Enemy Fools Mistake Realize
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
A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.
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Different Power Stop Wall
The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.
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Help Man Old Perfection
The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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Chaos Doubt Priest
For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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Dangerous Knowledge Known
All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.
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Lost Man Need Religion Water

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