Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?
ZHUANGZIA path is made by walking on it.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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Running around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along with things.
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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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A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
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Never admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it.
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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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Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy.
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Compare birth with death, compare death with life; compare what is possible with what is not possible and compare what is not possible with what is possible; because there is, there is not, and because there is not, there is.
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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 ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
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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.
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Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?
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