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 and the yang share a single flow.

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 and the yang share a single flow.

Zhuangzi
Save QuoteView Quote
Similar Quotes by zhuangzi

Zhuangzi's wife died. When Huizu went to convey his condolences, he found Zhuangzi sitting with his legs sprawled out, pounding on a tub and singing. "You lived with her, she brought up your children and grew old," said Huizu. "It should be enough simply not to weep at her death. But pounding on a tub and singing - this is going too far, isn't it?"Zhuangzi said, "You're wrong. When she first died, do you think I didn't grieve like anyone else? But I looked back to her beginning and the time before she was born. Not only the time before she was born, but the time before she had a body. Not only the time before she had a body, but the time before she had a spirit. In the midst of the jumble of wonder and mystery a change took place and she had a spirit. Another change and she had a body. Another change and she was born. Now there's been another change and she's dead. It's just like the progression of the four seasons, spring, summer, fall, winter."Now she's going to lie down peacefully in a vast room. If I were to follow after her bawling and sobbing, it would show that I don't understand anything about fate. So I stopped.

Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
Save QuoteView Quote

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.

Zhuangzi
Save QuoteView Quote

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

Zhuangzi
Save QuoteView Quote

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Zhuangzi
Save QuoteView Quote

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

Zhuangzi
Save QuoteView Quote

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.

Zhuangzi
Save QuoteView Quote

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Zhuangzi
Save QuoteView Quote

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Zhuangzi
Save QuoteView Quote

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

Zhuangzi
Save QuoteView Quote

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

Zhuangzi
Save QuoteView Quote