The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers – because it lives with those who know how to speak.
ZHUANGZIRunning around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along with things.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
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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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Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
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The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.
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Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.
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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
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He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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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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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
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People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?
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Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
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To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one’s true nature. Realization of one’s true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.
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To have a human form is a joyful thing.
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