Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
ZHUANGZIThe 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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Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.
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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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When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
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Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
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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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True men” are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn, warm like spring. Their passions arise like the four seasons, in harmony with the ten thousand creatures, and no one knows their limits.
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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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Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.
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The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
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I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.
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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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When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten.
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He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
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Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.
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All 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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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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During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.
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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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The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
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Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.
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To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.
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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 path is made by walking on it.
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The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.
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