The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.
ZHUANGZIFish live in water. Men die in it. Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.
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We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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There is danger for the eye in seeing too clearly, danger for the ear in hearing too sharply and danger to the heart from caring too greatly.
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He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets.
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When there is no more separation between ‘this’ and ‘that,’ it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.
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Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.
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The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
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Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.
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The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.
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When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten.
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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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Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.
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Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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