Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy.
ZHUANGZIWhen the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten. When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten. No drives, no compulsions, no needs, no attractions: Then your affairs are under control. You are a free man.
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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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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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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.
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He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
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Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.
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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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Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
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Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
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The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.
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When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
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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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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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Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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