The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
ZHUANGZIRunning around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along with things.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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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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Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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The sound of water says what I think.
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People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?
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If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
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Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly.
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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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When I talk about having good hearing, I don’t mean just listening, but listening to yourself. When I talk about good eyesight, I don’t mean just looking, but looking at yourself.
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Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it’s way.
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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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For all people strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.
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Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!
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Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
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A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
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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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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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Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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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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Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.
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You are still guided by your expectations.
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Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later.
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Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.
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Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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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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