The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers – because it lives with those who know how to speak.
ZHUANGZIEach one’s destiny cannot be altered.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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When I talk about having good hearing, I don’t mean just listening, but listening to yourself. When I talk about good eyesight, I don’t mean just looking, but looking at yourself.
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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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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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All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.
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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 you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.
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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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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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The Tao is in all things, in their divisions and their fullness. What I dislike about divisions is that they multiply, and what i dislike about multiplication is that it makes people want to hold fast to it. So people go out and forget to return, seeing little more than ghosts.
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Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.
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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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Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.
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The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.
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