When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten. When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten. No drives, no compulsions, no needs, no attractions: Then your affairs are under control. You are a free man.
ZHUANGZIBirth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
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A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?
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Being is thoughtless-beyond and beneath all categories of thought. Expression is the realization of creative thought. Being is still; expression, moving. But then if I do not strive, who will?
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The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
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A path is made by walking on it.
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Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.
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The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
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Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!
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Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.
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Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.
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Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.
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The creature born is the creature dying.
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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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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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