My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
ZHUANGZISo if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless. It is said, those who lose themselves in their desire for things also lose their innate nature by being vulgar.
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All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.
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Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
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Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection.
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Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.
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The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers – because it lives with those who know how to speak.
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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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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.
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Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later.
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Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
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You are still guided by your expectations.
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The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.
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The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.
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Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.
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Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy.
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