Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly.
ZHUANGZIFish live in water. Men die in it. Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.
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Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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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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All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so that I can have a word with him?
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If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
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Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.
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Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection.
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We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
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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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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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He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.
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Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
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