Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?
ZHUANGZITo be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
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Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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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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When there is no more separation between ‘this’ and ‘that,’ it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.
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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 sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.
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The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
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For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
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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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I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.
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To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
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Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
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The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.
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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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Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.
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The creature born is the creature dying.
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Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.
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Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
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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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The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.
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Each one’s destiny cannot be altered.
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The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.
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He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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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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