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Tao Quotes by Zhuangzi
- Tao is beyond words and beyond things. It is not expressed either in word or in silence. Where there is no longer word or silence…
- Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external…
- All that is limited by form, semblance, sound, color is called object. Among them all, man alone is more than an object. Though, like objects,…
- To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone with the spiritual…
- When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
- The hidden so-called scholars of old did not hide themselves and refuse to be seen. They did not close the door on their words and…
- All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.
- 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…
- Heaven cannot but be high. Earth cannot but be broad. The sun and moon cannot but revolve. All creation cannot but flourish. To do so…
- Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss of virtue. The heart unconscious…
- The mind remains undetermined in the great Void. Here the highest knowledge is unbounded. That which gives things their thusness cannot be delimited by things.…
- If you persist in trying to attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift), if you persist in making effort to obtain what effort…
- 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…
- Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. . . . When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao.…
- Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.
- There is danger for the eye in seeing too clearly, danger for the ear in hearing too sharply and danger to the heart from caring…
- Although things seem to be sometimes going up and sometimes descending, sometimes slipping away, nevertheless there is a reality, the same today as in the…
- 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…
- The true man of the past waited upon Heaven when dealing with people and did not wait upon people when dealing with Heaven.
- One whose inner being is fixed upon such greatness emits a Heavenly glow. Even though he has this Heavenly glow, others will see him as…
- Tao is obscured when men understand only one pair of opposites, or concentrate only on a partial aspect of being. Then clear expression also becomes…
- The Tao has no place for pettiness, and nor has Virtue. Pettiness is dangerous to Virtue; pettiness is dangerous to the Tao. It is said,…
- The Tao is in all things, in their divisions and their fullness. What I dislike about divisions is that they multiply, and what i dislike…
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