If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
ZHUANGZIDuring our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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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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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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Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
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Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
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So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless. It is said, those who lose themselves in their desire for things also lose their innate nature by being vulgar.
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The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
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The eyes envy the mind.
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During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.
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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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My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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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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Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
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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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