He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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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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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Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!
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You are still guided by your expectations.
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To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
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Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.
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The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.
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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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The true man breathes with his heels.
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The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
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When I talk about having good hearing, I don’t mean just listening, but listening to yourself. When I talk about good eyesight, I don’t mean just looking, but looking at yourself.
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Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.
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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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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
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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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