Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
ZHUANGZIBeing is thoughtless-beyond and beneath all categories of thought. Expression is the realization of creative thought. Being is still; expression, moving. But then if I do not strive, who will?
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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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The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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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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If one is true to one’s inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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When I talk about having good hearing, I don’t mean just listening, but listening to yourself. When I talk about good eyesight, I don’t mean just looking, but looking at yourself.
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Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument.
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Fish live in water. Men die in it. Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.
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Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
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There may be difficulty at the moment, but I will not lose the Virtue that I possess. It is when the ice and snow are on them that we see the strength of the cypress and the pine. I am grateful for this trouble around me, because it gives me an opportunity to realize how fortunate I am.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.
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He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
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