The sound of water says what I think.
ZHUANGZILook at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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You are still guided by your expectations.
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A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
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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.
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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.
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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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Men do not mirror themselves in running water – they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.
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The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.
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The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.
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Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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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.
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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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A path is made by walking on it.
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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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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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We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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