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.
ZHUANGZITao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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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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When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten. When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten. No drives, no compulsions, no needs, no attractions: Then your affairs are under control. You are a free man.
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Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?
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Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
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We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures.
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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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To have a human form is a joyful thing.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
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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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Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!
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My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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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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The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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