Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.
ZHUANGZITo regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone with the spiritual and the intelligent – herein lie the techniques of Tao of the ancients.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
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When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten. When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten. No drives, no compulsions, no needs, no attractions: Then your affairs are under control. You are a free man.
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Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
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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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Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
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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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Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it’s way.
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To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone with the spiritual and the intelligent – herein lie the techniques of Tao of the ancients.
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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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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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All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so that I can have a word with him?
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The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
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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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A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
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