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.
ZHUANGZIIf 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.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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To have a human form is a joyful thing.
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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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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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The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
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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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A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.
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The eyes envy the mind.
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The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.
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The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
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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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Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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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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