The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers – because it lives with those who know how to speak.
ZHUANGZIHeaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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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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You are still guided by your expectations.
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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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Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.
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Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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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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Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.
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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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Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.
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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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Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
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Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.
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Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.
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The eyes envy the mind.
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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.
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