Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.
ZHUANGZIFor all people strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.
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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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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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Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.
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A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
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A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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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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Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.
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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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Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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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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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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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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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
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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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Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?
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