Running around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along with things.
ZHUANGZI
But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.
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Running around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along with things.
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But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.
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Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.
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True men” are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn, warm like spring. Their passions arise like the four seasons, in harmony with the ten thousand creatures, and no one knows their limits.
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Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
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The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
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Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.
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I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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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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Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument.
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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 living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?
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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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Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
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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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