One whose inner being is fixed upon such greatness emits a Heavenly glow. Even though he has this Heavenly glow, others will see him as just a man. Someone who has reached this point will begin to be consistent.
ZHUANGZIThe World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
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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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For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.
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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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To have attained to the human form is a source of joy. What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.
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He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.
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A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.
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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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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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If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
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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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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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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
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