My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
ZHUANGZITo exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting in Tao. To start from nowhere and follow no road is the first step toward attaining Tao.
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We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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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 path is made by walking on it.
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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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The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.
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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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The saying goes, ‘The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.’ This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot affect him, nothing unpleasant can disturb him, his Virtue is complete and his spirit is not stirred up.
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Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.
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The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear.
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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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When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten.
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Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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