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T o a mind that is still, the entire universe surrenders.


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F orget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!


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T o be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.


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T he sound of water says what I think.


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I f 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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T he baby looks at things all day without winking; that is because his eyes are not focused on any particular object. He goes without knowing where he is going, and stops without knowing what he is doing. He merges himself within the surroundings and moves along with it. These are the principles of mental hygiene.


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W e are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening


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W hen the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten.


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G reat wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious.


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A nd how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?


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W ords are not just wind. Words have something to say. But if what they have to say is not fixed, then do they really say something? Or do they say nothing?


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W hat one calls right the other calls wrong; what one calls wrong the other calls right. But if we want to right their wrongs and wrong their rights, then the best to use is clarity.


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C herish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.


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Y et the stupid believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, that one herdsman – how dense! Confucius and you are both dreaming! And when I say you are dreaming, I am dreaming, too. Words like these will be labelled the Supreme Swindle.


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M en honour 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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W hen affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.


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A frog in a well cannot discuss the ocean, because he is limited by the size of his well. A narrow-minded scholar cannot discuss the Tao, because he is constrained by his teachings.


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T he one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.


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O nly he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.


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C ease striving. Then there will be transformation.


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S o it is said, for him who understands Heavenly joy, life is the working of Heaven; death is the transformation of things. In stillness, he and the Yin share a single Virtue; in motion, he and the Yang share a single flow.


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G reat truths do not take hold of the hearts of the masses.


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T here is the globe, the foundation of my bodily existence. It wears me out with work and duties, It gives me rest in old age, It gives me peace in death. For the one (Tao) who supplied me with what I needed in life will also give me what I need in death.


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T he time of the autumn floods came and the hundred streams poured into the Yellow River. … Then the Lord of the River was beside himself with Joy, believing that all the beauty in the world belonged to him alone.


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Y ou have only to rest in inaction and things will transform themselves. Smash your form and body, spit out hearing and eyesight, forget you are a thing among other things, and you may join in great unity with the deep and boundless (Tao).


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