When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten.
ZHUANGZIThe man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?
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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. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
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The creature born is the creature dying.
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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
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The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.
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All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.
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Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
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If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
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Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.
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To exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting in Tao. To start from nowhere and follow no road is the first step toward attaining Tao.
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The true man breathes with his heels.
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Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
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Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.
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But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.
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Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.
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Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
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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 envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.
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Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later.
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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
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All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
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Each one’s destiny cannot be altered.
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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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The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
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