Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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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Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
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Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.
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Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
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The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
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Fish live in water. Men die in it. Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.
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The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
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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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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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For all people strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.
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The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.
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Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
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The true man breathes with his heels.
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True men” are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn, warm like spring. Their passions arise like the four seasons, in harmony with the ten thousand creatures, and no one knows their limits.
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The sage has the sun and moon by his side and the universe under his arm. He blends everything into a harmonious whole. . . . He blends the disparities of ten thousand years into one complete purity. All things are blended like this and mutually involve each other.
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