Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
ZHUANGZII do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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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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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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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 perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.
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Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?
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Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.
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Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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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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I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.
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True men” are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn, warm like spring. Their passions arise like the four seasons, in harmony with the ten thousand creatures, and no one knows their limits.
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Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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For all people strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.
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