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You should find the same joy in one condition as in the other and thereby be free of care, that is all. But now, when the things that happened along t...more

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If a man, having lashed two hulls together, is crossing a river, and an empty boat happens along and bumps into him, no matter how hot-tempered the ma...more

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

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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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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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Master Dongguo asked Zhuangzi, "This thing called the Way - where does it exist?"Zhuangzi said, "There's no place it doesn't exist.""Come," said Maste...more

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A path is made by walking on it.

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

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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

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The Spirit Tower has its guardian, but unless it understands who its guardian is, it cannot be guarded.

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The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand things are insufficient to distract his mind - th...more

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Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into wor...more

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In the world everyone knows enough to pursue what he does not know, but no one knows enough to pursue what he already knows. Everyone knows enough to ...more

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You forget your feet when the shoes are comfortable. You forget your waist when the belt is comfortable. Understanding forgets right and wrong when th...more

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So 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 yi...more