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Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.

Zhuangzi

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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Beginning Easy Forget Right 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 saying goes, ‘The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.’ This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot affect him, nothing unpleasant can disturb him, his Virtue is complete and his spirit is not stirred up.
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Calm Compete Complete Disturb Ease Manifestation Priest Rest Sage Virtue
Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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Alone Goodness Result
Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views-then the world will be governed.
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Government Mindset Personal Room Simplicity Spirit View Wander Way World
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
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Calm Creation Mindset Mirror Universe Water
Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?
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Awake Dreams Myself Yourself
To have a human form is a joyful thing.
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Form Human Joy
Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
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Flow Freedom Mindset Yourself
Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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Enough Nature Necessary
Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
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Action Root Silence
The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.
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Hide Himself Man Perfection Person Respect Sight
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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Alone Ancient Essence Fundamental Intelligence Quiet Spiritual Technique
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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Argument Energy Exhaust Form Heaven Point Soul Tree
To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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Charge Dangerous Solution Yourself
He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
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Himself Infinite Nature Oneself Regard Whole

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