But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.
ZHUANGZITake care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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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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When there is no more separation between ‘this’ and ‘that,’ it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.
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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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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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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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A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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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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All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.
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I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.
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To have a human form is a joyful thing.
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