If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.
ZHUANGZIWhere can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it’s way.
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A path is made by walking on it.
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Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?
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To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one’s true nature. Realization of one’s true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.
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All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
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Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only ‘certain’ standard. If you mistake what is relative for something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth.
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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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To have attained to the human form is a source of joy. What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.
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Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!
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