When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
ZHUANGZIWhen deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
ZHUANGZIGreat understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
ZHUANGZIFlow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
ZHUANGZITo be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one’s true nature. Realization of one’s true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.
ZHUANGZIAll men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
ZHUANGZIWhen you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.
ZHUANGZIStandards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only ‘certain’ standard. If you mistake what is relative for something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth.
ZHUANGZIHeaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
ZHUANGZIWe are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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.
ZHUANGZILet your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.
ZHUANGZIThe ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
ZHUANGZILife comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
ZHUANGZIFor all people strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.
ZHUANGZITrue depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear.
ZHUANGZII 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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