When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.
ZHUANGZIWhen the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten.
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The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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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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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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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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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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Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly.
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The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.
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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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True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear.
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When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten. When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten. No drives, no compulsions, no needs, no attractions: Then your affairs are under control. You are a free man.
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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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A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
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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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Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.
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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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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
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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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A path is made by walking on it.
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The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.
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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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Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.
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I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.
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Compare birth with death, compare death with life; compare what is possible with what is not possible and compare what is not possible with what is possible; because there is, there is not, and because there is not, there is.
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Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
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