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.
ZHUANGZIGreat understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.
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The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.
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The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.
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Being is thoughtless-beyond and beneath all categories of thought. Expression is the realization of creative thought. Being is still; expression, moving. But then if I do not strive, who will?
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The saying goes, ‘The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.’ This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot affect him, nothing unpleasant can disturb him, his Virtue is complete and his spirit is not stirred up.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.
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If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
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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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The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
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If one is true to one’s inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?
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Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.
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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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A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
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Never admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it.
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The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.
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Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!
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To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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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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When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets.
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The creature born is the creature dying.
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.
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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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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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