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.
ZHUANGZITo have attained to the human form is a source of joy. What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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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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The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
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If one is true to one’s inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?
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Those 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.
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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
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Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
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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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A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
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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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Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
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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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