He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
ZHUANGZIThe right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
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Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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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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To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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Men do not mirror themselves in running water – they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.
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Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection.
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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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He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is something. There is nothing.
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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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When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
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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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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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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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