The eyes envy the mind.
ZHUANGZIA frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later.
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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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When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten.
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All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
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The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.
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Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
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Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.
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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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The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
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The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.
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Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.
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