The sage has the sun and moon by his side and the universe under his arm. He blends everything into a harmonious whole. . . . He blends the disparities of ten thousand years into one complete purity. All things are blended like this and mutually involve each other.
ZHUANGZIThe one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.
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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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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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Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
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If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.
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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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The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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The true man breathes with his heels.
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Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
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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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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
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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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Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
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Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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