The eyes envy the mind.
ZHUANGZIThe greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
-
-
He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.
ZHUANGZI -
If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.
ZHUANGZI -
Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.
ZHUANGZI -
Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
ZHUANGZI -
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.
ZHUANGZI -
Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
ZHUANGZI -
Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
ZHUANGZI -
A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
ZHUANGZI -
Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.
ZHUANGZI -
A path is made by walking on it.
ZHUANGZI -
A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
ZHUANGZI -
I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.
ZHUANGZI -
The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.
ZHUANGZI -
If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
ZHUANGZI -
When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
ZHUANGZI