Fish live in water. Men die in it. Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.
ZHUANGZIPerfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
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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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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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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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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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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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When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.
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Being is thoughtless-beyond and beneath all categories of thought. Expression is the realization of creative thought. Being is still; expression, moving. But then if I do not strive, who will?
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Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!
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The eyes envy the mind.
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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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He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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The creature born is the creature dying.
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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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