The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
ZHUANGZIThe men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.
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Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection.
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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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Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
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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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Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later.
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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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During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.
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Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.
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The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.
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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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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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Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy.
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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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Running around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along with things.
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