Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.
ZHUANGZITake care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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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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Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.
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The true man breathes with his heels.
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Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.
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But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.
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Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
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The sage has the sun and moon by his side and the universe under his arm. He blends everything into a harmonious whole. . . . He blends the disparities of ten thousand years into one complete purity. All things are blended like this and mutually involve each other.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.
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The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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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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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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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.
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Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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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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If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.
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When there is no more separation between ‘this’ and ‘that,’ it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.
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To exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting in Tao. To start from nowhere and follow no road is the first step toward attaining Tao.
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Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument.
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We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures.
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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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To have a human form is a joyful thing.
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