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Zhuangzi

Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views-then the world will be governed.
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Government Mindset Personal Room Simplicity Spirit View Wander Way World
Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
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Automatic Body Care Strong Willing
Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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Enough Nature Necessary
Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.
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Greatness Inspirational Knowledge Limitation Literature Poet Small Universe Value
He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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Activity Himself Live Nature
When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.
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Complete Identify Spirituality Yourself
Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
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Enemy Fools Mistake Realize
A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
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Greatness Nation Prison Rule
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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Bliss Count Form Happiness Human Joy Source Transition
Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
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Action Root Silence
Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.
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Essence Lost Lying Precious Yourself
A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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Deep Ocean One Liner
Fish live in water. Men die in it. Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.
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Death Deep Diversity Live Men Nature Taste Water
Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly.
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Butterfly Dreams Himself Incarnation
Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
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Allow Natural Satisfaction Yourself
So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless. It is said, those who lose themselves in their desire for things also lose their innate nature by being vulgar.
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Desire Fade Happiness Loss Nature Vulgar Worth

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