Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
ZHUANGZIHe who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
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Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy.
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The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.
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When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
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When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.
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Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
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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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Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?
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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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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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But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.
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When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
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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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