The true man breathes with his heels.
ZHUANGZIHe who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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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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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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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
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If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
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The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.
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To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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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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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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Each one’s destiny cannot be altered.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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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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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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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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To have a human form is a joyful thing.
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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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