We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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
-
-
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.
ZHUANGZI -
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
ZHUANGZI -
Running around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along with things.
ZHUANGZI -
If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.
ZHUANGZI -
When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.
ZHUANGZI -
Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels. Such is the real nature of horses.
ZHUANGZI -
A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
ZHUANGZI -
Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
ZHUANGZI -
Compare birth with death, compare death with life; compare what is possible with what is not possible and compare what is not possible with what is possible; because there is, there is not, and because there is not, there is.
ZHUANGZI -
The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
ZHUANGZI -
Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.
ZHUANGZI -
Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.
ZHUANGZI -
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.
ZHUANGZI -
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
ZHUANGZI -
He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.
ZHUANGZI