Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
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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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Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly.
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Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
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Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.
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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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The true man breathes with his heels.
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When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten.
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All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
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I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.
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To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
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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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Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection.
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Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
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