He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
ZHUANGZIWords exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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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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Men do not mirror themselves in running water – they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.
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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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For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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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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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
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True men” are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn, warm like spring. Their passions arise like the four seasons, in harmony with the ten thousand creatures, and no one knows their limits.
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If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.
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The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.
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Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
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The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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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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There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is something. There is nothing.
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