True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear.
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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You are still guided by your expectations.
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Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.
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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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Fish live in water. Men die in it. Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.
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Each one’s destiny cannot be altered.
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To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
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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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The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?
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To have attained to the human form is a source of joy. What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.
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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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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.
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Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it’s way.
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The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.
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