The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
ZHUANGZIAre you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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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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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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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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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
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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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Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
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All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
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All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
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Compare birth with death, compare death with life; compare what is possible with what is not possible and compare what is not possible with what is possible; because there is, there is not, and because there is not, there is.
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