Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
ZHUANGZIFlow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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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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A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.
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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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The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers – because it lives with those who know how to speak.
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Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views-then the world will be governed.
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True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear.
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The true man breathes with his heels.
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The Tao is in all things, in their divisions and their fullness. What I dislike about divisions is that they multiply, and what i dislike about multiplication is that it makes people want to hold fast to it. So people go out and forget to return, seeing little more than ghosts.
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He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.
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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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We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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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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