Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.
ZHUANGZILook at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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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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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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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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Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.
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To have a human form is a joyful thing.
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When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
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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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To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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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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There may be difficulty at the moment, but I will not lose the Virtue that I possess. It is when the ice and snow are on them that we see the strength of the cypress and the pine. I am grateful for this trouble around me, because it gives me an opportunity to realize how fortunate I am.
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Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
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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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Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
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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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