Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.
ZHUANGZIThe creature born is the creature dying.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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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 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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Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly.
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The creature born is the creature dying.
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The saying goes, ‘The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.’ This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot affect him, nothing unpleasant can disturb him, his Virtue is complete and his spirit is not stirred up.
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Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.
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A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.
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The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
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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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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
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The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
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Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?
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