The creature born is the creature dying.
ZHUANGZIWhen the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.
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Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later.
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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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When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
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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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Never admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it.
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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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Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?
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Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
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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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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
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All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
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The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.
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