You are still guided by your expectations.
ZHUANGZIPerfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.
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Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.
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When there is no more separation between ‘this’ and ‘that,’ it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.
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Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
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When I talk about having good hearing, I don’t mean just listening, but listening to yourself. When I talk about good eyesight, I don’t mean just looking, but looking at yourself.
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Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
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Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.
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Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?
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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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Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.
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When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
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We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.
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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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