Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.
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?
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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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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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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The sage has the sun and moon by his side and the universe under his arm. He blends everything into a harmonious whole. . . . He blends the disparities of ten thousand years into one complete purity. All things are blended like this and mutually involve each other.
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Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.
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He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul.
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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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He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.
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Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly.
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A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.
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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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If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
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And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?
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There is danger for the eye in seeing too clearly, danger for the ear in hearing too sharply and danger to the heart from caring too greatly.
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The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.
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