Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
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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Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
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Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
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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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The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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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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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.
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Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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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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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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There is danger for the eye in seeing too clearly, danger for the ear in hearing too sharply and danger to the heart from caring too greatly.
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Never admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it.
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To have a human form is a joyful thing.
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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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Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?
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