To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one’s true nature. Realization of one’s true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.
ZHUANGZIBut 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 ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
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The sound of water says what I think.
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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.
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The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.
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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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If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.
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Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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The true man breathes with his heels.
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Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
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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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A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.
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The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
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