Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Water becomes clear and transparent when in a quiescent stage. How much the more wonderful will be the mind of a sage… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
There are no greater adversaries than yin and yang, because nothing in Heaven or on Earth escapes them. But it is not… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
If we look on heaven and earth as a single crucible, and on the creator as the founder, would there be any… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
My most interesting memory is of my first real dream. I was a caterpillar, wriggling around in the earth, just the way… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth,… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Heaven cannot but be high. Earth cannot but be broad. The sun and moon cannot but revolve. All creation cannot but flourish.… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
'I shall have heaven and earth for my coffin and its shell; the sun and moon for my two round symbols of… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, find no place in that man's breast; for to him all creation is ONE. And all things being… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Heaven does nothing: its non-doing is its serenity. Earth does nothing: its non-doing is its rest. From the union of these two… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
As regards the quietude of the sage, he is not quiet because quietness is said to be good. He is quiet because… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss of virtue. The heart… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
If a man is crossing the river and an empty boat collides with his skiff, even though he is a bad tempered man he… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Calculate what man knows and it cannot compare to what he doesn't know. Calculate the time he is alive and it cannot compare to… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Heaven cannot but be high. Earth cannot but be broad. The sun and moon cannot but revolve. All creation cannot but flourish. To do… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
If you wish to care for your body, first of all take care of material things, though even when you have all the things… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
As regards the quietude of the sage, he is not quiet because quietness is said to be good. He is quiet because the multitude… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Now, when ordinary people attempt to find happiness, I am not sure whether the happiness is really happiness or not. I study what ordinary… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is then a… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
