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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.

Zhuangzi

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.
ZHUANGZI

Carry Growth Himself Lose Machine Work
The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.
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Capacity Clear Eyes Mindset Organ Wisdom
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
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.
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Creature Dignity Expression Harmony Inspirational Man Passion Peace Season Strong True Warm
You are still guided by your expectations.
ZHUANGZI

Expectation Guide Yourself
True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear.
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Clear Precise Shallow True Understand Wisdom Word
Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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Calm Earth Heaven Purity
Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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Broad Busy Calm Greatness Understand
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
Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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Enough Nature Necessary
The creature born is the creature dying.
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Born Creature Death
Being is thoughtless-beyond and beneath all categories of thought. Expression is the realization of creative thought. Being is still; expression, moving. But then if I do not strive, who will?
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Beyond Creativity Expression Myself Realize Thinking Willing
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
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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Earth Life Nature Return
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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Butterfly Dreams Man Myself
Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.
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Conflict Harmony Life Stop

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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