Zhuangzi Quotes about Understanding

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Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.

Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.

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Men, Understanding, Doe

Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy

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Understanding, Littles, Busy

Zhuangzi, Burton Watson, Columbia College (Columbia University) (1968). “The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu”, p.37, Columbia University Press

If you persist in trying to attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift), if you persist in making effort to obtain what effort cannot get, if you persist in reasoning about what cannot be understood, you will be destroyed by the very thing you seek. To know when to stop, to know when you can get no further by your own action, this is the right beginning!

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Effort, Understanding, Taoism

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

Zhuangzi

Understanding, Doe, Finest

True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear

Zhuangzi

Wisdom, Understanding, Lazy

It is only when the formed learns from the unformed that there is understanding.

Zhuangzi

Learning, Understanding

The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing. The hearing of the understanding is another. But the hearing of the spirit is not limited to any one faculty to the ear, or to the mind.

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Empathy, Understanding, Mind

"The Living Bread". Book by Thomas Merton, 1956.

Zhuangzi Quotes about Understanding

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