The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
ZHUANGZIRewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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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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For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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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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A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.
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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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A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
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Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
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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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To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one’s true nature. Realization of one’s true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.
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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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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
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My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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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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Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
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To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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