Each one’s destiny cannot be altered.
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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To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
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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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Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.
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A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.
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Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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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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Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
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Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!
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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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To have attained to the human form is a source of joy. What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.
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The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
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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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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.
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The eyes envy the mind.
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