Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
ZHUANGZIForget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
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When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.
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Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
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All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
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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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The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.
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If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.
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There may be difficulty at the moment, but I will not lose the Virtue that I possess. It is when the ice and snow are on them that we see the strength of the cypress and the pine. I am grateful for this trouble around me, because it gives me an opportunity to realize how fortunate I am.
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To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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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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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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The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.
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Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels. Such is the real nature of horses.
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The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.
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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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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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For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.
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He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul.
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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
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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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There is danger for the eye in seeing too clearly, danger for the ear in hearing too sharply and danger to the heart from caring too greatly.
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When there is no more separation between ‘this’ and ‘that,’ it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.
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The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.
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When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
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