He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.
ZHUANGZIA path is made by walking on it.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.
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There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is something. There is nothing.
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The sound of water says what I think.
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Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.
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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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Being is thoughtless-beyond and beneath all categories of thought. Expression is the realization of creative thought. Being is still; expression, moving. But then if I do not strive, who will?
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Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.
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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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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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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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Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.
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To 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.
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The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.
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