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A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him?
Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.
Am I a human dreaming I am a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming I am a human?
Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?
Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.
For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
That knowledge which stops at what it does not know, is the highest knowledge.
The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.
It is only when the formed learns from the unformed that there is understanding.
The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.
Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.
Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?
All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.
Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy
Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
If one is true to one's inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?
Fish live in water. Men die in it.Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.
For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.
...the ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
Never admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it
Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
The fish trap exists because of the fish: once you have gotten the meanings, you can forget the words.
There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning ... There is something. There is nothing.
Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.
The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.
Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.
Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.
He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.
Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.
The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.
When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.