Compare birth with death, compare death with life; compare what is possible with what is not possible and compare what is not possible with what is possible; because there is, there is not, and because there is not, there is.
ZHUANGZILook at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.
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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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The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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The creature born is the creature dying.
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The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers – because it lives with those who know how to speak.
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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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He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul.
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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so that I can have a word with him?
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I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.
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All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.
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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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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
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There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is something. There is nothing.
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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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