Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly.
ZHUANGZIListening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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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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To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
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I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
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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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The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.
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When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
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So 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.
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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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Fish live in water. Men die in it. Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.
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Men do not mirror themselves in running water – they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.
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Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
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When I talk about having good hearing, I don’t mean just listening, but listening to yourself. When I talk about good eyesight, I don’t mean just looking, but looking at yourself.
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All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.
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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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