The sound of water says what I think.
ZHUANGZIThe sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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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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Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only ‘certain’ standard. If you mistake what is relative for something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth.
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When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.
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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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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?
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Each one’s destiny cannot be altered.
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For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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There may be difficulty at the moment, but I will not lose the Virtue that I possess. It is when the ice and snow are on them that we see the strength of the cypress and the pine. I am grateful for this trouble around me, because it gives me an opportunity to realize how fortunate I am.
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I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.
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A path is made by walking on 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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Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
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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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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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