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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?

Zhuangzi

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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Heart Mindset Soul Understand Yourself
Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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Enough Nature Necessary
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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Animal Drink Hairs Horse Nature Protection Reality Skin
All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
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Known Men Utility
A path is made by walking on it.
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Inspirational Journey One Liner Path Walk
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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Artificial Destiny Fame Natural Sacrifice Virtue
If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
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Journey Path Way
He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
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Fame Fear Pursue Risk Scholar
The Tao is in all things, in their divisions and their fullness. What I dislike about divisions is that they multiply, and what i dislike about multiplication is that it makes people want to hold fast to it. So people go out and forget to return, seeing little more than ghosts.
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Division Fast Forget Hold People Return See
For all people strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.
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Chaos Excellence People Strive
The true man breathes with his heels.
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Breathe Heel Man One Liner Philosophy True
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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Cloud Follow Heaven Light Understand Wisdom Yourself
If one is true to one’s inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?
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Deep Follow Teacher True Wisdom
The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.
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Occupy Sky Space Unity
Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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Beginning Born Death End
The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
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Better Choice King Man Position Stream Wisdom World

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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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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