Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
ZHUANGZIIf you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.
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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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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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The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
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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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Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection.
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My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.
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To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone with the spiritual and the intelligent – herein lie the techniques of Tao of the ancients.
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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.
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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 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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Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels. Such is the real nature of horses.
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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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Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.
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