Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
ZHUANGZI
Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
-
Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
ZHUANGZI -
Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!
ZHUANGZI -
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
ZHUANGZI -
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
ZHUANGZI -
He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
ZHUANGZI -
The creature born is the creature dying.
ZHUANGZI -
The eyes envy the mind.
ZHUANGZI -
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.
ZHUANGZI -
The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
ZHUANGZI -
Men do not mirror themselves in running water – they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.
ZHUANGZI -
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.
ZHUANGZI -
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
ZHUANGZI -
The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
ZHUANGZI -
When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
ZHUANGZI -
The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
ZHUANGZI -
Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.
ZHUANGZI