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Zhuangzi  Quotes
The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.

—Zhuangzi

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GovernmentRobberyStealing
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I cannot tell if what the world considers ‘happiness’ is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim...

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HappinessInspirationalLife
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Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

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Understanding
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Yet the stupid believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, that one herdsman – how dense! Confucius and you are both dreaming! And when I say you...

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DreamingDreamsLucidity
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Cease striving. Then there will be transformation.

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BuddhismStrivingTransformation
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Men of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is...

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KnowledgeLimitationTruth
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Can you be a little baby? The baby howls all day, yet its throat never gets hoarse – harmony at its height! The baby makes fists all day, yet its fingers never get cramped –...

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Don’t you know about the praying mantis that waved its arms angrily in front of an approaching carriage, unaware that they were incapable of stopping it? Such was the high opinion it had of its...

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ArroganceHubrisOverconfidence
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In all affairs, whether large or small, there are few men who reach a happy conclusion except through the Way. If you do not succeed, you are bound to suffer from the judgment of men....

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HappinessSuccessTaoism
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The man who has forgotten self may be said to have entered Heaven.

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EnlightenmentHeavenSelf
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A child, obeying his father and mother, goes wherever he is told, east or west, south or north. And the yin and yang – how much more are they to a man than father or...

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DeathGodRebirth
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Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him?

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Philosophical
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Words are not just wind. Words have something to say. But if what they have to say is not fixed, then do they really say something? Or do they say nothing? People suppose that words...

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RealityTruthWords
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The Spirit Tower has its guardian, but unless it understands who its guardian is, it cannot be guarded.

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Do not use life to give life to death. Do not use death to bring death to life.

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DeathLifeLife-And-Death
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You should find the same joy in one condition as in the other and thereby be free of care, that is all. But now, when the things that happened along take their leave, you cease...

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HappinessJoyTaoism
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If a man, having lashed two hulls together, is crossing a river, and an empty boat happens along and bumps into him, no matter how hot-tempered the man may be, he will not get angry....

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AngerEmptinessEquanimity
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Eyes that are blind have no way to tell the loveliness of faces and features; eyes with no pupils have no way to tell the beauty of colored and embroidered silks.

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BeautyBlindnessColor
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Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

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Martial-ArtsZen
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Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was...

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When I speak of good hearing, I do not mean listening to others; I mean simply listening to yourself. When I speak of good eyesight, I do not mean looking at others; I mean simply...

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DifferenceIndividualityJoy
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You forget your feet when the shoes are comfortable. You forget your waist when the belt is comfortable. Understanding forgets right and wrong when the mind is comfortable. There is no change in what is...

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ComfortComfortableEquanimity
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So it is said, for him who understands Heavenly joy, life is the working of Heaven; death is the transformation of things. In stillness, he and the yin share a single Virtue; in motion, he...

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DeathFlowHeaven
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We can’t expect a blind man to appreciate beautiful patterns or a deaf man to listen to bells and drums. And blindness and deafness are not confined to the body alone – the understanding has...

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BeautyInsightPerception
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The baby looks at things all day without winking; that is because his eyes are not focused on any particular object. He goes without knowing where he is going, and stops without knowing what he...

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Chuang-TzuLao-TzuZen
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The time of the autumn floods came and the hundred streams poured into the Yellow River. … Then the Lord of the River was beside himself with Joy, believing that all the beauty in the...

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Philosophy
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I have heard that he who knows what is enough will not let himself be entangled by thoughts of gain; that he who really understands how to find satisfaction will not be afraid of other...

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DisatisfactionEquanimityIndividual
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We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening

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DeathExistentialismLife
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Not to understand is profound; to understand is shallow. Not to understand is to be on the inside; to understand is to be on the outside.

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GraspInsightKnowledge
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He who steals a belt buckle pays with his life; he who steals a state gets to be a feudal lord.

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GovernmentStealTaoism
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A man like this will not go where he has no will to go, will not do what he has no mind to do. Though the world might praise him and say he had really...

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EnlightenmentFreedomSage
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

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LowestRewards
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A path is made by walking on it.

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Wisdom
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To forget the whole world is easy; to make the whole world forget you is hard.

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AlienationForgetIndividual
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You have only to rest in inaction and things will transform themselves. Smash your form and body, spit out hearing and eyesight, forget you are a thing among other things, and you may join in...

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You can’t discuss the ocean with a well frog – he’s limited by the space he lives in. You can’t discuss ice with a summer insect – he’s bound to a single season.

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IgnoranceKnowledgeLimitations
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People who excuse their faults and claim they didn’t deserved to be punished – there are lots of them. But those who don’t excuse their faults and admit they didn’t deserve to be spared –...

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GuiltMercyPunishment
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When a man does not dwell in self, then things will of themselves reveal their forms to him. His movement is like that of water, his stillness like that of a mirror, his responses like...

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EnlightenmentFreedomSelf
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Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?

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ForgottenWordWords
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The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.

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Wisdom
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A good completion takes a long time; a bad completion cannot be changed later.

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CompletionEffortSuccess
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A beam or pillar can be used to batter down a city wall, but it is no good for stopping up a little hole – this refers to a difference in function. Thoroughbreds like Qiji...

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DualityGood-And-BadInterdependence
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Suppose I try saying something. What way do I have of knowing that if I say I know something I don’t really not know it? Or what way do I have of knowing that if...

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IgnoranceKnowledge
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In the midst of darkness, he alone sees the dawn; in the midst of the soundless, he alone hears harmony.

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DarknessEnlightenmentHarmony
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Life, death, preservation, loss, failure, success, poverty, riches, worthiness, unworthiness, slander, fame, hunger, thirst, cold, heat – these are the alternations of the world, the workings of fate. Day and night they change place before...

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ChangeEquanimityFate
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When men do not forget what can be forgotten but forget what cannot be forgotten – that may be called true forgetting.

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ForgetMemory
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Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!

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Wisdom
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The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand things are insufficient to distract his mind – that is the reason he is still.

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EnlightenmentMeditationMind
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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...

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ArgumentRight-And-WrongTruth
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Your life has a limit, but knowledge has none. If you use what is limited to pursue what has no limit, you will be in danger.

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KnowledgeLifeLimit
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