The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.
ZHUANGZIMy opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.
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The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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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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Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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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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To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
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There is danger for the eye in seeing too clearly, danger for the ear in hearing too sharply and danger to the heart from caring too greatly.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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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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All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
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To exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting in Tao. To start from nowhere and follow no road is the first step toward attaining Tao.
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Each one’s destiny cannot be altered.
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Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
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Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?
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