Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views-then the world will be governed.
ZHUANGZIThe little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers – because it lives with those who know how to speak.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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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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Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.
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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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There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is something. There is nothing.
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Being is thoughtless-beyond and beneath all categories of thought. Expression is the realization of creative thought. Being is still; expression, moving. But then if I do not strive, who will?
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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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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Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
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The sage has the sun and moon by his side and the universe under his arm. He blends everything into a harmonious whole. . . . He blends the disparities of ten thousand years into one complete purity. All things are blended like this and mutually involve each other.
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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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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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Each one’s destiny cannot be altered.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
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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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