He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
ZHUANGZIThe eyes envy the mind.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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The sound of water says what I think.
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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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Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
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The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers – because it lives with those who know how to speak.
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My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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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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Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views-then the world will be governed.
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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
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The creature born is the creature dying.
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Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.
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Standards 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.
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Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.
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Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.
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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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