Can 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.
ZHUANGZILet your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.
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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 have attained to the human form is a source of joy. What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.
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I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
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Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!
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Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.
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He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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One whose inner being is fixed upon such greatness emits a Heavenly glow. Even though he has this Heavenly glow, others will see him as just a man. Someone who has reached this point will begin to be consistent.
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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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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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People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?
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The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
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The true man breathes with his heels.
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The saying goes, ‘The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.’ This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot affect him, nothing unpleasant can disturb him, his Virtue is complete and his spirit is not stirred up.
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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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If one is true to one’s inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?
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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 perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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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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To have a human form is a joyful thing.
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There may be difficulty at the moment, but I will not lose the Virtue that I possess. It is when the ice and snow are on them that we see the strength of the cypress and the pine. I am grateful for this trouble around me, because it gives me an opportunity to realize how fortunate I am.
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He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.
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Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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Each one’s destiny cannot be altered.
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The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.
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