Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.
ZHUANGZIHe who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?
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Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly.
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Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.
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Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
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The true man breathes with his heels.
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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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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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The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
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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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I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.
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Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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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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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.
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