Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.
ZHUANGZIEverything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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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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The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.
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The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
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The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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The true man breathes with his heels.
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Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.
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To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.
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Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels. Such is the real nature of horses.
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We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
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If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.
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The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
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Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
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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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A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
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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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The sound of water says what I think.
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Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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