Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
ZHUANGZIThe enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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There is danger for the eye in seeing too clearly, danger for the ear in hearing too sharply and danger to the heart from caring too greatly.
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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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To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone with the spiritual and the intelligent – herein lie the techniques of Tao of the ancients.
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So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless. It is said, those who lose themselves in their desire for things also lose their innate nature by being vulgar.
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To have a human form is a joyful thing.
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When I talk about having good hearing, I don’t mean just listening, but listening to yourself. When I talk about good eyesight, I don’t mean just looking, but looking at yourself.
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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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A path is made by walking on it.
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Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.
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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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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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Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.
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When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.
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My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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Running around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along with things.
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