The eyes envy the mind.
ZHUANGZILuck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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Compare birth with death, compare death with life; compare what is possible with what is not possible and compare what is not possible with what is possible; because there is, there is not, and because there is not, there is.
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Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!
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A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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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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The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.
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So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless. It is said, those who lose themselves in their desire for things also lose their innate nature by being vulgar.
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A path is made by walking on it.
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Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.
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Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
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For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
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Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
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Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
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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 ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views-then the world will be governed.
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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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My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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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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All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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Being is thoughtless-beyond and beneath all categories of thought. Expression is the realization of creative thought. Being is still; expression, moving. But then if I do not strive, who will?
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A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.
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