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?
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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All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
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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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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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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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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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The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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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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Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.
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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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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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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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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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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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A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
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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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