Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have… — 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
Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. . . . When one is at ease with himself, one… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
There is no bandit so powerful as Nature. The interaction of the positive and the negative principles, which produces the visible universe.… — 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
'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
“I've heard my teacher say, where there are machines, there are bound to be machine worries; where there are machine worries, there… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless.… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Beneath multiple specific and individual distinctions, beneath innumerable and incessant transformations, at the bottom of the circular evolution without beginning or end,… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“Therefore the Way that is sagely within and kingly without has fallen into darkness and is no longer clearly perceived, has become… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Fish live in water. Men die in it.Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Man may rest in the eternal fitness; he may abide in the everlasting; and roam from the beginning to the end of… — 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
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
