We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
ZHUANGZIHe who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?
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The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.
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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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When there is no more separation between ‘this’ and ‘that,’ it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.
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Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument.
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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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The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.
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Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.
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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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To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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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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My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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