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Happiness is the abscence of the striving for happiness.

The tao is made because we walk it,things become what they are called.

When men do not forget what can be forgotten but forget what cannot be forgotten - that may be called true forgetting.

Moreover, I have heard that those who are fond of praising men to their faces are also fond of damning them behind their backs.

All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless!

The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.

To forget the whole world is easy; to make the whole world forget you is hard.

That knowledge which stops at what it does not know, is the highest knowledge.

Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.

By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit to mankind.

The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?

The whole world is incapable of judging either right or wrong. but it is certain that actionless action can judge both right and wrong.

Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.

When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.

True depth of understanding is wide and steady,
Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering,
Words of wisdom are precise and clear

Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.

The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.

A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.

If you were to hide the world in the world, so that nothing could get away, this would be the final reality of the constancy of things.

You are still guided by your expectations.

He who steals a belt buckle pays with his life; he who steals a state gets to be a feudal lord.

To have attained to the human form is a source of joy ... What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.

Flow
with whatever may happen + let your mind be free.
.. stay centered, by accepting whatever you're doing.
.. this is the ultimate.

Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.

Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.

The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.

A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.

The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.

Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.

Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.

The man who has forgotten self may be said to have entered Heaven.

Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?

Heaven is like an egg, and the earth is like the yolk of the egg.

Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.

Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!

Fish live in water. Men die in it.Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.

Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.

The sound of water says what I think.

Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious.

The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.

The World is Large - Its beauty indescrible.

Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.

Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.

Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly ...

Do not use life to give life to death. Do not use death to bring death to life.

Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.

When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.

The right way to go easy is to forget the right way ...

The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.

The creature born is the creature dying.

Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.

Running around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along with things.

Cease striving. Then there will be transformation.

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

Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.

You will always find an answer in the sound of water.

The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.

Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.

Each one's destiny cannot be altered.

Your life has a limit, but knowledge has none. If you use what is limited to pursue what has no limit, you will be in danger.

Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone

In the midst of darkness, he alone sees the dawn; in the midst of the soundless, he alone hears harmony.

To have a human form is a joyful thing.

It is only when the formed learns from the unformed that there is understanding.

Why don't you try wandering with me to the Palace of Not-Even-Anything

Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?

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

To a mind that is still, the entire universe surrenders.

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.

Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.

There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning ... There is something. There is nothing.

Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.

For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

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

Not to understand is profound; to understand is shallow. Not to understand is to be on the inside; to understand is to be on the outside.

There 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.

The true man of the past waited upon Heaven when dealing with people and did not wait upon people when dealing with Heaven.

Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.

He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.

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.

To examine oneself makes good use of sight.

The Perfect Man uses his mind like a mirror - going after nothing, welcoming nothing, responding but not storing.

Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.

If one is true to one's inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?

Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.

Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.

The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.

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

A path is made by walking on it.

To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.

Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.

The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.

Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him?

The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.

A good completion takes a long time; a bad completion cannot be changed later.

Never admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it