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.
ZHUANGZITrue men” are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn, warm like spring. Their passions arise like the four seasons, in harmony with the ten thousand creatures, and no one knows their limits.
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To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone with the spiritual and the intelligent – herein lie the techniques of Tao of the ancients.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!
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Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.
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Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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Each one’s destiny cannot be altered.
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The creature born is the creature dying.
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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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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
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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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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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Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
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He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul.
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