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.
ZHUANGZIAll existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
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If one is true to one’s inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?
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He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.
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The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
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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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Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it’s way.
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Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
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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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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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Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.
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Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?
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The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.
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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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