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The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.

Zhuangzi

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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Better Choice King Man Position Stream Wisdom World
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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Flow Himself Identify Intelligence Nature Path Religion Whole
Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.
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Essence Lost Lying Precious Yourself
A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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Deep Ocean One Liner
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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Earth Life Nature Return
All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
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Beautiful Existence Rare Regard Transformation Ugly Value
To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one’s true nature. Realization of one’s true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.
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Constant Happiness Nature Oneself Perfection Realize
Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
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Complete Empty Full Religion Source
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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Infinite Point Religious Separate Sight View Yourself
Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly.
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Butterfly Dreams Himself Incarnation
The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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Happiness Philosophy Ultimate
Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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Fine Philosophy Rest Understand
For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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Dangerous Knowledge Known
He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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Activity Himself Live Nature
Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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Absence Happiness Perfection Wisdom
When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
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Ignorance People Philosophy

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