When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
ZHUANGZIThe enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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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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Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.
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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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If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
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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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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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He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
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Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.
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True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear.
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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.
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Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels. Such is the real nature of horses.
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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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Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.
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There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is something. There is nothing.
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The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.
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When there is no more separation between ‘this’ and ‘that,’ it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.
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Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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To exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting in Tao. To start from nowhere and follow no road is the first step toward attaining Tao.
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Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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The creature born is the creature dying.
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A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
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To have attained to the human form is a source of joy. What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.
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The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
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Each one’s destiny cannot be altered.
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