A path is made by walking on it.
ZHUANGZITrue depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear.
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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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To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!
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He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
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Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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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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To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
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You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.
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Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
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If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.
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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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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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Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only ‘certain’ standard. If you mistake what is relative for something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth.
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The saying goes, ‘The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.’ This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot affect him, nothing unpleasant can disturb him, his Virtue is complete and his spirit is not stirred up.
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When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.
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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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Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?
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When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
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The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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To have attained to the human form is a source of joy. What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.
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When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
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A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.
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The sound of water says what I think.
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Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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