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!
ZHUANGZI
Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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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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Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.
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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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He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.
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When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.
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Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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The creature born is the creature dying.
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For all people strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.
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There may be difficulty at the moment, but I will not lose the Virtue that I possess. It is when the ice and snow are on them that we see the strength of the cypress and the pine. I am grateful for this trouble around me, because it gives me an opportunity to realize how fortunate I am.
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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 eyes envy the mind.
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You are still guided by your expectations.
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The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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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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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
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