We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
ZHUANGZIHe 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.
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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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Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
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Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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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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When I talk about having good hearing, I don’t mean just listening, but listening to yourself. When I talk about good eyesight, I don’t mean just looking, but looking at yourself.
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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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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 one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.
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Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.
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The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
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Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument.
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He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
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To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
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