Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
ZHUANGZIThe Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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The true man breathes with his heels.
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Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
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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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My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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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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Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
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The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?
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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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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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Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only ‘certain’ standard. If you mistake what is relative for something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth.
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The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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