Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
ZHUANGZIThe creature born is the creature dying.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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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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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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When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.
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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 ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?
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Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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You are still guided by your expectations.
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But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
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Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.
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Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.
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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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