So 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.
ZHUANGZIAll men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so that I can have a word with him?
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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When there is no more separation between ‘this’ and ‘that,’ it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
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Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!
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Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
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If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.
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The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
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Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.
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Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?
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The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.
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When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
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