To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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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Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
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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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The true man breathes with his heels.
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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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Compare birth with death, compare death with life; compare what is possible with what is not possible and compare what is not possible with what is possible; because there is, there is not, and because there is not, there is.
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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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Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.
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When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
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We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.
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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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