The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers – because it lives with those who know how to speak.
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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Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.
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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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Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.
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People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?
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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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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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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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Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.
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Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels. Such is the real nature of horses.
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The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.
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The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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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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