The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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 perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
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Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?
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All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
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Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.
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Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
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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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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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He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
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There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is something. There is nothing.
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Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.
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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
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