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.
ZHUANGZIWe cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
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Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.
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My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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To exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting in Tao. To start from nowhere and follow no road is the first step toward attaining Tao.
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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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Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one’s true nature. Realization of one’s true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.
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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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When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten.
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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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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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Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
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The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.
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I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.
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