You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.
ZHUANGZIHe who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless. It is said, those who lose themselves in their desire for things also lose their innate nature by being vulgar.
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Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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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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Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.
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The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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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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To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
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Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it’s way.
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A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
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The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers – because it lives with those who know how to speak.
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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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