The creature born is the creature dying.
ZHUANGZIEach one’s destiny cannot be altered.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.
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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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When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
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Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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Each one’s destiny cannot be altered.
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Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?
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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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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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You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.
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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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The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers – because it lives with those who know how to speak.
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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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To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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One 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.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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