Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
ZHUANGZIThe sage has the sun and moon by his side and the universe under his arm. He blends everything into a harmonious whole. . . . He blends the disparities of ten thousand years into one complete purity. All things are blended like this and mutually involve each other.
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If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
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All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.
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Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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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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Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.
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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 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.
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Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument.
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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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I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.
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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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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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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
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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 perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
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