Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!
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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Running around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along with things.
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He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
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Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
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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 eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
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My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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A path is made by walking on it.
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When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
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Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.
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Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.
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Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.
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All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
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To have a human form is a joyful thing.
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