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.
ZHUANGZIOne whose inner being is fixed upon such greatness emits a Heavenly glow. Even though he has this Heavenly glow, others will see him as just a man. Someone who has reached this point will begin to be consistent.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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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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Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
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Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
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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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We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
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A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?
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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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Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.
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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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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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Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.
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All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
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Running around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along with things.
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