The Tao is in all things, in their divisions and their fullness. What I dislike about divisions is that they multiply, and what i dislike about multiplication is that it makes people want to hold fast to it. So people go out and forget to return, seeing little more than ghosts.
ZHUANGZIWhere can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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Each one’s destiny cannot be altered.
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All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.
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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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Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it’s way.
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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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Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!
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All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so that I can have a word with him?
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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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The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
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Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.
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The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one’s true nature. Realization of one’s true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.
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When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
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The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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