Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.
ZHUANGZIAnd 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?
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
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The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
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To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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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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If one is true to one’s inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?
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A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.
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The saying goes, ‘The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.’ This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot affect him, nothing unpleasant can disturb him, his Virtue is complete and his spirit is not stirred up.
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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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To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone with the spiritual and the intelligent – herein lie the techniques of Tao of the ancients.
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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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Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?
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Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
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Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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