Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
ZHUANGZIThe torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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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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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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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
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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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All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so that I can have a word with him?
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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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A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.
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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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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
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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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There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is something. There is 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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When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.
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