Zhuang Zhou

Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.

Zhuang Zhou

A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.

Zhuang Zhou

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

Zhuang Zhou

All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless!

Zhuang Zhou

Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.

Zhuang Zhou

Cease striving. Then there will be transformation.

Zhuang Zhou

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

Zhuang Zhou

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

Zhuang Zhou

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.

Zhuang Zhou

Emptiness is the fasting of the mind.

Zhuang Zhou