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To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.

Zhuangzi

All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
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Known Men Utility
Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
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Cherish Curse Knowledge Yourself
Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only ‘certain’ standard. If you mistake what is relative for something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth.
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Different Man Mistake Standard Truth Ultimate Yourself
Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.
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Breathe Control Inspirational Magic Meditation Power Strength
Each one’s destiny cannot be altered.
ZHUANGZI

Change Destiny One Liner Oneself
Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later.
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Cloud Follow Heaven Light Understand Wisdom Yourself
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
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Gradual Opinion Ourselves Perspective Point View
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
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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Heart Insight Intellectual Knowledge Pierce
The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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Beautiful Description Nature World
Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
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God Himself Man Reward Work
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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Discrimination Embrace Failure Man Myself Ordinary See
A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.
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Bright Confusion Doubt Light Sage
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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Clear Precise Shallow True Understand Wisdom Word
Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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Fine Philosophy Rest Understand
He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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Activity Himself Live Nature

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