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.
ZHUANGZITo 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.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.
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Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
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To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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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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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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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers – because it lives with those who know how to speak.
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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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Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later.
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Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
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The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.
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