Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
ZHUANGZIThe ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear.
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Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.
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Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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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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The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.
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Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly.
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Men do not mirror themselves in running water – they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.
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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 of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.
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The sound of water says what I think.
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Never admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it.
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The sage has the sun and moon by his side and the universe under his arm. He blends everything into a harmonious whole. . . . He blends the disparities of ten thousand years into one complete purity. All things are blended like this and mutually involve each other.
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