Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
ZHUANGZIThe effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.
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Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
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Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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Running around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along with things.
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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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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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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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I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.
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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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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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A path is made by walking on it.
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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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To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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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 you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.
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