The saying goes, ‘The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.’ This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot affect him, nothing unpleasant can disturb him, his Virtue is complete and his spirit is not stirred up.
ZHUANGZIHe who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views-then the world will be governed.
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Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.
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A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!
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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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Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
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When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
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Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless. It is said, those who lose themselves in their desire for things also lose their innate nature by being vulgar.
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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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He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.
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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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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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