One whose inner being is fixed upon such greatness emits a Heavenly glow. Even though he has this Heavenly glow, others will see him as just a man. Someone who has reached this point will begin to be consistent.
ZHUANGZIMen do not mirror themselves in running water – they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
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To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one’s true nature. Realization of one’s true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.
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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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Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!
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Each one’s destiny cannot be altered.
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To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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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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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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Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul.
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Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.
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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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The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?
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