Zhuangzi Quotes - Page 4

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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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  Exercise, Taoism, Firsts

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• Those who realise their folly are not true fools.

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  Stupidity, Fool, Folly

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• He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.

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  Nature, Companion, All Things

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• Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it's way.

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  Light, Earth, Way

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• The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.

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  Eye, Sight, Mind

  Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.205, Univ of California Press

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• Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy.

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  Spiritual, Way, Forget

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• You are still guided by your expectations.

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  Expectations, Tao, Stills

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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.

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  Chinese, Would Be, Needs

  "Zhuangzi". Discussion on Making All Things Equal", Book by Zhuangzi,

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• Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.

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  Destiny, Virtue, Fame

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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.

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  Archer, Caring, Thinking

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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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  Horse, Tao, Conflict

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• If there is existence, there must be non-existence. And if there was a time when nothing existed, there must have been a time before that - when even nothing did not exist. Suddenly, when nothing came into existence, could one really say whether it belonged to the category of existence or non-existence?

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  Spiritual, Categories, Existence

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• The creature born is the creature dying.

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  Acceptance, Dying, Born

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• The Portal of God is nonexistence. All things sprang from nonexistence. Existence could not make existence existence. It must have proceeded from nonexistence, and nonexistence and nothing are one. Herein is the abiding place of the sage.

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  Abiding, Sage, Portal

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• If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.

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  Water, Mind, Faculty

  Zhuangzi, Herbert Allen Giles (1909). “Teachings and Sayings of Chuang Tzu”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

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  Lying, Men, Honor

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• When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.

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  All Things

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• The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.

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  Helping Others, Men, Perfect

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• The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.

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  Men, Mirrors, Perfect

  Zhuangzi, Herbert Allen Giles (1909). “Teachings and Sayings of Chuang Tzu”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.

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  Spiritual, Dying, Birth

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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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  Cherish, Curse

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• When there is no more separation between 'this' and 'that,' it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.

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  Circles, Taoism, Spirituality

  Zhuangzi (1974). “Chuang tsu: Inner chapters”, Vintage Books USA

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• The World is Large - Its beauty indescrible.

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  Chinese, World

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• All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.

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  Men, Water, Taoism

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• The saying goes, 'The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.' This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot affect him, nothing unpleasant can disturb him, his Virtue is complete and his spirit is not stirred up.

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  Worry, Sage, Ease

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