Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.
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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.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.
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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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All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
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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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If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.
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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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If one is true to one’s inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?
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To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
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Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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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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When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
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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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