A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt. Zhuangzi More Quotes by Zhuangzi More Quotes From Zhuangzi 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 the time before he was born. Yet man takes something so small and tries to exhaust the dimensions of something so large! Zhuangzi alive trying men 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. So when we speak of 'limits', we remain confined to limited things. The limit of the unlimited is called 'fullness.' The limitlessness of the limited is called 'emptiness.' Tao is the source of both. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness Zhuangzi void mind giving 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 conditions. Zhuangzi anxiety encouragement mind The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind. Zhuangzi tragedy persons mind Make your will one! Don't listen with your ears, listen with your mind. No, don't listen with your mind, but listen with your spirit. Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty- and waits on all things. The Way gathers in emptiness alone. Emptiness is the fasting of the mind. Zhuangzi waiting listening mind The Portal of God is nonexistence. All things sprang from nonexistence. Existence could not make existence existence. It must have proceeded from nonexistence, and nonexistence and nothing are one. Herein is the abiding place of the sage. Zhuangzi portal sage abiding My description of wisdom has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is to do with being wise in one's own virtue, nothing more. My description of being has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is that one should be led by one's innate nature, nothing more. Zhuangzi virtue wisdom wise Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it's way. Zhuangzi light earth way Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many. Zhuangzi taoism breaking-down knowledge Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone Zhuangzi results order Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger. Zhuangzi work-out fitness motivational 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 affect him, nothing unpleasant can disturb him, his Virtue is complete and his spirit is not stirred up. Zhuangzi sage ease worry All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so that I can have a word with him? Zhuangzi use forgotten men Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed! Zhuangzi limitless life-is knowledge Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse. Zhuangzi curse cherish We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures. Zhuangzi sage body joy And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to? Zhuangzi hate home men He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul. Zhuangzi simplicity soul heart 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 about multiplication is that it makes people want to hold fast to it. So people go out and forget to return, seeing little more than ghosts. Zhuangzi division want people To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one's true nature. Realization of one's true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection. Zhuangzi realization perfection happiness
