Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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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Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.
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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.
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Being is thoughtless-beyond and beneath all categories of thought. Expression is the realization of creative thought. Being is still; expression, moving. But then if I do not strive, who will?
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The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.
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A path is made by walking on it.
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Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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The sound of water says what I think.
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He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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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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Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?
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If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.
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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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Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.
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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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The saying goes, ‘The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.’ This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot affect him, nothing unpleasant can disturb him, his Virtue is complete and his spirit is not stirred up.
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