Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
ZHUANGZIThe 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.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
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Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.
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Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.
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The sound of water says what I think.
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Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection.
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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
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Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
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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?
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The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
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I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.
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He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul.
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The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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