Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later.
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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A path is made by walking on it.
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Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.
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The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?
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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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Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
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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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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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My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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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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The eyes envy the mind.
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Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.
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To have attained to the human form is a source of joy. What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.
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The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
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