A path is made by walking on it.
ZHUANGZIA path is made by walking on it.
ZHUANGZII am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.
ZHUANGZIEasy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy.
ZHUANGZIThe 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?
ZHUANGZIThe perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
ZHUANGZINever admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it.
ZHUANGZIEither in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.
ZHUANGZIEverything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
ZHUANGZICompare 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.
ZHUANGZIHorses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels. Such is the real nature of horses.
ZHUANGZIIf you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.
ZHUANGZIYou 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.
ZHUANGZIIf water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
ZHUANGZIIf 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.
ZHUANGZIAll the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.
ZHUANGZIThe World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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