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.
ZHUANGZIThe torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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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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True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear.
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A path is made by walking on it.
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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.
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Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!
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Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
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Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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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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The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later.
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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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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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The eyes envy the mind.
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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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