Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
ZHUANGZIWe cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
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When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
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The true man breathes with his heels.
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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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Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.
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Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
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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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Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.
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Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
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The eyes envy the mind.
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The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
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Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!
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The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.
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The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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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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When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
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