Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
ZHUANGZITo regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone with the spiritual and the intelligent – herein lie the techniques of Tao of the ancients.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.
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The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.
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Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
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The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
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But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.
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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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Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.
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The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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The 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.
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We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
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Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.
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The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.
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Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly.
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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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Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
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Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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There is danger for the eye in seeing too clearly, danger for the ear in hearing too sharply and danger to the heart from caring too greatly.
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When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
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The Tao is in all things, in their divisions and their fullness. What I dislike about divisions is that they multiply, and what i dislike about multiplication is that it makes people want to hold fast to it. So people go out and forget to return, seeing little more than ghosts.
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To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one’s true nature. Realization of one’s true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.
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Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only ‘certain’ standard. If you mistake what is relative for something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth.
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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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To exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting in Tao. To start from nowhere and follow no road is the first step toward attaining Tao.
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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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