There may be difficulty at the moment, but I will not lose the Virtue that I possess. It is when the ice and snow are on them that we see the strength of the cypress and the pine. I am grateful for this trouble around me, because it gives me an opportunity to realize how fortunate I am.
ZHUANGZILet everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
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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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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 greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.
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Running around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along with things.
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
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To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear.
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We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.
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Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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Compare birth with death, compare death with life; compare what is possible with what is not possible and compare what is not possible with what is possible; because there is, there is not, and because there is not, there is.
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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
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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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Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own 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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The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.
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Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
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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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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 I talk about having good hearing, I don’t mean just listening, but listening to yourself. When I talk about good eyesight, I don’t mean just looking, but looking at yourself.
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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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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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