Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
ZHUANGZIMy opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
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My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten. When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten. No drives, no compulsions, no needs, no attractions: Then your affairs are under control. You are a free man.
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.
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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.
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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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All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
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To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?
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The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.
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People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?
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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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Each one’s destiny cannot be altered.
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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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