The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.
ZHUANGZICan a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.
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For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.
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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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To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one’s true nature. Realization of one’s true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.
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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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Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy.
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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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Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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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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Running around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along with things.
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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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You are still guided by your expectations.
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The eyes envy the mind.
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