The Tao is in all things, in their divisions and their fullness. What I dislike about divisions is that they multiply, and what i dislike about multiplication is that it makes people want to hold fast to it. So people go out and forget to return, seeing little more than ghosts.
ZHUANGZIThe greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.
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The creature born is the creature dying.
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Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
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The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
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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 the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.
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Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.
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The sound of water says what I think.
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it’s way.
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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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Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
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Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.
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