Fish live in water. Men die in it. Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.
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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Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.
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Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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The eyes envy the mind.
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True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear.
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All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so that I can have a word with him?
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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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The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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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 perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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To exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting in Tao. To start from nowhere and follow no road is the first step toward attaining Tao.
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All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
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The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.
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People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?
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Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.
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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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The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers – because it lives with those who know how to speak.
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The creature born is the creature dying.
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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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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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Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
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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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The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.
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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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Never admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it.
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