The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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.
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Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.
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Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
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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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Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels. Such is the real nature of horses.
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Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?
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There is danger for the eye in seeing too clearly, danger for the ear in hearing too sharply and danger to the heart from caring too greatly.
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The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.
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Each one’s destiny cannot be altered.
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The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.
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Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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If 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.
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We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten.
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