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.
ZHUANGZILet your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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During 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.
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A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.
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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 World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
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The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.
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The creature born is the creature dying.
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Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
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All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so that I can have a word with him?
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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.
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My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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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 knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?
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