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“The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.”
-- Zhuangzi
#Doubt #Sage #Torches
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“The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?”
-- Zhuangzi
#Philosophical #Men #Rabbits
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“A path is made by walking on it.”
-- Zhuangzi
#Path #Made #Walking
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“We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.”
-- Zhuangzi
#Fall #Winter #Autumn
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“Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.”
-- Zhuangzi
#Happiness #Happy #Perfect
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“When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten; when the belt fits, the belly is forgotten; when the heart is right, "for" and "against" are forgotten. There is no change in what is inside, no following what is outside, when the adjustment to events is comfortable. One begins with what is comfortable and never experiences what is uncomfortable, when one knows the comfort of forgetting what is comfortable.”
-- Zhuangzi
#Heart #Shoes #Feet
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“The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.”
-- Zhuangzi
#Wise #Men #Mountain
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“Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!”
-- Zhuangzi
#Home #Years #Forget
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“Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now 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.”
-- Zhuangzi
#Dream #Butterfly #Men
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“To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.”
-- Zhuangzi
#Life #Letting Go #Ignorant
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“Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.”
-- Zhuangzi
#Earth #Return
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“To have a human form is a joyful thing.”
-- Zhuangzi
#Joy #Joyful #Form
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“Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.”
-- Zhuangzi
#Encouraging #Mind #Flow
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“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
#Men #Mind #Charity
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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.”
-- Zhuangzi
#Eye #Heart #Intellectual
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“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
#Moon #Years #Sage
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“Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.”
-- Zhuangzi
#Luck #Principles #Absence
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“The baby looks at things all day without winking; that is because his eyes are not focused on any particular object. He goes without knowing where he is going, and stops without knowing what he is doing. He merges himself within the surroundings and moves along with it. These are the principles of mental hygiene.”
-- Zhuangzi
#Baby #Moving #Eye
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“Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.”
-- Zhuangzi
#Heart #Soul #Mind
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“Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument.”
-- Zhuangzi
#Chinese #Needs #Would Be
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“During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.”
-- Zhuangzi
#Dream #May #Awakening
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“Thus, those who say they would have right without its correlate, wrong; or good government without its correlate, misrule, do not apprehend the great principles of the universe, nor the nature of all creation.”
-- Zhuangzi
#Government #Principles #Creation
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“The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.”
-- Zhuangzi
#Mind #Tragedy #Persons
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“The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.”
-- Zhuangzi
#Men #Rivers #Lakes
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“Never admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it”
-- Zhuangzi
#Men #Judging #Chinese
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“The sound of water says what I think.”
-- Zhuangzi
#Thinking #Water #Sound
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“All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.”
-- Zhuangzi
#Beauty #Beautiful #May
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“Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?”
-- Zhuangzi
#Men #Forgotten
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“When an archer is shooting for nothing, he has all his skill. If he shoots for a brass buckle, he is already nervous. If he shoots for a prize of gold, he goes blind or sees two targets - He is out of his mind! His skill has not changed. But the prize divides him. He cares. He thinks more of winning than of shooting- And the need to win drains him of power.”
-- Zhuangzi
#Archer #Caring #Winning
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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.”
-- Zhuangzi
#Dream #Butterfly #Men
