Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger. — Zhuangzi Body Copy Share Image
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind. — Zhuangzi Faculty Copy Share Image
A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses. — Zhuangzi Battering Copy Share Image
“The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing… — Zhuangzi Effects Copy Share Image
The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail… — Zhuangzi Discriminate Copy Share Image
The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor… — Zhuangzi Contentment Copy Share Image
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly… — Zhuangzi Butterfly Copy Share Image
How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not… — Zhuangzi Death Copy Share Image
The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to… — Zhuangzi Capacity Copy Share Image
Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have… — Zhuangzi Charity Copy Share Image
Who knows when the end is reached? Death may be the beginning of life. How do I know that love of life… — Zhuangzi Beginning of life Copy Share Image
When there is no more separation between 'this' and 'that,' it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point… — Zhuangzi All things Copy Share Image
The love of a Sage for his fellows likewise finds expression amongst mankind. Were he not told sop, he would not know… — Zhuangzi Cease 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… — Zhuangzi Demand Copy Share Image
Compare birth with death, compare death with life; compare what is possible with what is not possible and compare what is not… — Zhuangzi Birth Copy Share Image
When you're dreaming, you don't know it's a dream. You might even interpret a dream in your dream - and then wake… — Zhuangzi Awakening Copy Share Image
Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will… — Zhuangzi Being wise Copy Share Image
Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only 'certain' standard. If you… — Zhuangzi All things 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.… — Zhuangzi Causes Copy Share Image
The bait is the means to get the fish where you want it, catch the fish and you forget the bait. The… — Zhuangzi Bait Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I… — Zhuangzi Butterfly 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… — Zhuangzi Angry Copy Share Image
The hidden so-called scholars of old did not hide themselves and refuse to be seen. They did not close the door on… — Zhuangzi Deep roots Copy Share Image
Love of colors bewilders the eye and it fails to see right. Love of harmonies bewitches the ear, and it loses its… — Zhuangzi Cages Copy Share Image
If you want to nourish a bird, you should let it live any way it chooses. Creatures differ because they have different… — Zhuangzi Ability Copy Share Image
The mind remains undetermined in the great Void. Here the highest knowledge is unbounded. That which gives things their thusness cannot be… — Zhuangzi Confined Copy Share Image
