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- If there is existence, there must be non-existence. And if there was a time when nothing existed, there must have been a time before that…
- Goods and possessions are no gain in his eyes. He stays far from wealth and honor. Long life is no ground for joy, nor early…
- All that is limited by form, semblance, sound, color is called object. Among them all, man alone is more than an object. Though, like objects,…
- All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten.…
- 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…
- The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing. The hearing of the understanding is another. But the hearing of the spirit is…
- If one is true to one's inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?
- The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught the trap is forgotten. The purpose of a rabbit…
- When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
- The 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…
- Yet the stupid believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, that one herdsman – how dense! Confucius…
- Make your will one! Don't listen with your ears, listen with your mind. No, don't listen with your mind, but listen with your spirit. Listening…
- My description of wisdom has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is to do with being wise in one's own virtue, nothing more.…
- To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one's true nature. Realization of one's true nature is happiness. When one…
- Big? Sure. But, he can't catch mice! So for your big tree. No use? Then plant it in the wasteland - in emptiness. Walk idly…
- Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss of virtue. The heart unconscious…
- Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, find no place in that man's breast; for to him all creation is ONE. And all things being thus united in…
- Man may rest in the eternal fitness; he may abide in the everlasting; and roam from the beginning to the end of all creation. He…
- 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…
- Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. . . . When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao.…
- Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.
- Although things seem to be sometimes going up and sometimes descending, sometimes slipping away, nevertheless there is a reality, the same today as in the…
- One whose inner being is fixed upon such greatness emits a Heavenly glow. Even though he has this Heavenly glow, others will see him as…
- Tao is obscured when men understand only one pair of opposites, or concentrate only on a partial aspect of being. Then clear expression also becomes…
- He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
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