Zhuangzi, The Complete Works Of Chuang Tzu Quotes
Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.
The Perfect Man uses his mind like a mirror - going after nothing, welcoming nothing, responding but not storing.
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.
The Spirit Tower has its guardian, but unless it understands who its guardian is, it cannot be guarded.
When men do not forget what can be forgotten but forget what cannot be forgotten - that may be called true forgetting.
The man who has forgotten self may be said to have entered Heaven.
Men all pay homage to what understanding understands, but no one understands enough to rely upon what understanding does not understand and thereby come to understand.
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.
The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.
He who has mastered the true nature of life does not labor over what life cannot do. He who has mastered the true nature of fate does not labor over what knowledge cannot change.
Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.
Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views - then the world will be governed.
Do not use life to give life to death. Do not use death to bring death to life.
