Men do not mirror themselves in running water – they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.
ZHUANGZIThe little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers – because it lives with those who know how to speak.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.
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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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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
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I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul.
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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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Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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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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We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only ‘certain’ standard. If you mistake what is relative for something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth.
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There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is something. There is nothing.
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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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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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Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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