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Daoism -> Zhuangzi -> Outer Chapters -> Knowledge Rambling in the North -> 2.2

Even they, with their spirit-like and most exquisite intelligence,
as well as all the tribes that undergo their transformations,
the dead and the living, the square and the round,
do not understand their root and origin,
but nevertheless they all from the oldest time by it preserve their being.
Vast as is the space included within the six cardinal points,
it all (and all that it contains) lies within (this twofold root of Heaven and Earth);
small as is an autumn hair,
it is indebted to this for the completion of its form.
天下All things beneath the sky, now rising, now descending,
ever continue the same through this.
The Yin and Yang, and the four seasons revolve and move by it,
each in its proper order.
Now it seems to be lost in obscurity, but it continues;
now it seems to glide away, and have no form, but it is still spirit-like.
All things are nourished by it, without their knowing it.
This is what is called the Root and Origin;
by it we may obtain a view of what we mean by Heaven.


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