Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Guo Xiang

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a philosopher Guo Xiang.
Last updated on November 22, 2024.
Guo Xiang

Guo Xiang is credited with the first and most important revision of the text known as the Zhuangzi which, along with the Tao Te Ching, forms the textual and philosophical basis of the Taoist school of thought. He was also a scholar of xuanxue.

Philosopher | 252 - 312
If you stop and confine yourself to one place, you will develop prejudices. — © Guo Xiang
If you stop and confine yourself to one place, you will develop prejudices.
If one... struggles for what is beyond the most proper, doing not in accordance with one's natural ability, acting not with one's genuine feeling, one will surely get into trouble.
The ordinary people will consider it lack of simplicity to harmonize all the changes throughout ten thousand years. With a tired body and a frightened mind, they toil to avoid this and to take that. The sage alone has no prejudice. He therefore proceeds with utter simplicity and becomes one with transformation and always roams in the realm of unity.
Therefore if we realize that our nature and destiny are what they should be, we will have no anxiety and will be at ease with ourselves in the face of life or death, prominence or obscurity, or an infinite amount of changes and variations, and will be in accord with principle.
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