He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
ZHUANGZIDuring our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
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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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One whose inner being is fixed upon such greatness emits a Heavenly glow. Even though he has this Heavenly glow, others will see him as just a man. Someone who has reached this point will begin to be consistent.
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Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly.
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Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels. Such is the real nature of horses.
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The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
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Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
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If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.
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Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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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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Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
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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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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.
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The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
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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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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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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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Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
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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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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.
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When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets.
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