You are still guided by your expectations.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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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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When I talk about having good hearing, I don’t mean just listening, but listening to yourself. When I talk about good eyesight, I don’t mean just looking, but looking at yourself.
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The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
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When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
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To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
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The eyes envy the mind.
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We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.
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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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Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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If one is true to one’s inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
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The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
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The saying goes, ‘The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.’ This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot affect him, nothing unpleasant can disturb him, his Virtue is complete and his spirit is not stirred up.
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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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