True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear.
ZHUANGZIHe who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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A path is made by walking on it.
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The Tao is in all things, in their divisions and their fullness. What I dislike about divisions is that they multiply, and what i dislike about multiplication is that it makes people want to hold fast to it. So people go out and forget to return, seeing little more than ghosts.
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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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If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
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Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.
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The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.
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Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views-then the world will be governed.
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And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?
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We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone with the spiritual and the intelligent – herein lie the techniques of Tao of the ancients.
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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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The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.
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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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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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