Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.
ZHUANGZIPerfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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There may be difficulty at the moment, but I will not lose the Virtue that I possess. It is when the ice and snow are on them that we see the strength of the cypress and the pine. I am grateful for this trouble around me, because it gives me an opportunity to realize how fortunate I am.
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Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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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.
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You are still guided by your expectations.
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There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is something. There is nothing.
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The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
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The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.
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And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?
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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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Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.
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A path is made by walking on it.
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Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection.
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