The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.
ZHUANGZITake care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
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Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.
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To have a human form is a joyful thing.
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.
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The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?
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True men” are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn, warm like spring. Their passions arise like the four seasons, in harmony with the ten thousand creatures, and no one knows their limits.
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Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.
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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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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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He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
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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 true man breathes with his heels.
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Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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The creature born is the creature dying.
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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.
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