Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
ZHUANGZI
When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten. When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten. No drives, no compulsions, no needs, no attractions: Then your affairs are under control. You are a free man.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.
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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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During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.
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You 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.
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
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When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
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Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
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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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The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.
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The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
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Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
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The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
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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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