When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten.
ZHUANGZIA frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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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.
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Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.
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For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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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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Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?
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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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When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.
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You are still guided by your expectations.
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Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.
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The creature born is the creature dying.
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
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