Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.
ZHUANGZIThe World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets.
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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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A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
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Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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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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Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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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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To exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting in Tao. To start from nowhere and follow no road is the first step toward attaining Tao.
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He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.
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When I talk about having good hearing, I don’t mean just listening, but listening to yourself. When I talk about good eyesight, I don’t mean just looking, but looking at yourself.
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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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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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