He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
ZHUANGZISo if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless. It is said, those who lose themselves in their desire for things also lose their innate nature by being vulgar.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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Running around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along with things.
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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.
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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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Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?
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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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To have a human form is a joyful thing.
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If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.
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Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.
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Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly.
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The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
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To exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting in Tao. To start from nowhere and follow no road is the first step toward attaining Tao.
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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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