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.
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.
ZHUANGZIRunning around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along with things.
ZHUANGZIYou cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.
ZHUANGZIA sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.
ZHUANGZIThe perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
ZHUANGZIBreathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.
ZHUANGZIRight is not right; so is not so. If right were really right it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument.
ZHUANGZIWe possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures.
ZHUANGZIThose who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
ZHUANGZITo be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
ZHUANGZII am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.
ZHUANGZIEach one’s destiny cannot be altered.
ZHUANGZIThe effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.
ZHUANGZIWhen you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.
ZHUANGZIThe right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
ZHUANGZILife is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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