Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
ZHUANGZIThere is danger for the eye in seeing too clearly, danger for the ear in hearing too sharply and danger to the heart from caring too greatly.
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The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.
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Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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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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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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The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
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Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!
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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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A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.
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The 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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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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To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
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Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
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Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?
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