There may be difficulty at the moment, but I will not lose the Virtue that I possess. It is when the ice and snow are on them that we see the strength of the cypress and the pine. I am grateful for this trouble around me, because it gives me an opportunity to realize how fortunate I am.
ZHUANGZIThe torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is something. There is nothing.
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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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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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Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly.
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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
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Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.
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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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All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
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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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For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten.
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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
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If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
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The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
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