Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
ZHUANGZIThe 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.
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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People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?
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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. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
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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.
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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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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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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
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Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it’s way.
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When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten.
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Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels. Such is the real nature of horses.
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If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
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A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
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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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Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly.
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The sound of water says what I think.
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Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
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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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He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.
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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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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
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Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
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To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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