Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
ZHUANGZIDo not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
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The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?
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When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.
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Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection.
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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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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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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.
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A path is made by walking on it.
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Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.
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The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
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The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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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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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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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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The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.
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My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy.
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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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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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He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
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You are still guided by your expectations.
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The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
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Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
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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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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
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